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1828. 

Timothy RoedsSon Cbessey. 1861-63, Chaplain 2nd Re^t. Min- 
nesota Vols. 

1829. 

William Frank Nelson. Commissioned Hospital Chaplaiu, July, 
1862 ; stationed at Cincinnati during the war, with detail service to 
Louisville and Chattanooga, after the battles of Chicamauga and 
Lookout Valley, Gen. Rosecrans commanding ; wounded in the 
face, while on dutj, and disabled. Mustered out, July 28th, 1865. 

1830. 

Thomas Reed Rawson. Commissioned Hospital Chaplain, Aug. 
16th, 1864 ; stationed at General Hospital, Albany, K Y. Mustered 
out, Oct. 31st, 1865. 

1831. 

Orlow Mather Doeman. Appointed Paymaster, July, 1862, with 
rank of Major ; served at Baltimore under Gen. Wool ; Hilton 
Head, S. C, under Gens. David Hunter and Q. A. Gilmore ; Fort 
Monroe and Norfolk, under Gens. B. F. Butler and U. S. Grant ; 
Raleigh, N. C, imder Gen. Ruger ; Florida campaign, under Gen. 
Gilmore ; Forts Wagner and Sumter, and around Richmond. Sick 
with dysentery and typhoid fever. Mustered out at Washington 
D. C, Feb. 1866. 



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Nathaniel Augustus Fishek. Commissioned State Surgeon, Feb. 
14th, 18G2 ; March 7th, 1863, Surgeon 13th Conn. Vols.; Jan. 2ncl, 
1864, Surgeon 29th Conn, (colored) Vols. Entered New Orleans soon 
after its surrender ; served at Port Hudson, Bayou La Fourche, 
Ked Kiver cami^aign, Sec, under Gens. Banks and Butler. Sick in 
St. James Hospital from April 25th to middle of June, 18G4, when 
the commission was resigned. AVas connected with the 29th Conn. 
Kegt. two months, leaving on account of health. 

* John Lawrence Fox. Sept. 6th, 1837, commissioned Asst. Sur- 
geon ; promoted to Surgeon Aug. 16th, 1847. Spring of 1864 ap- 
pomted Fleet Surgeon to North Atlantic Blockading squadron 
rendezvousing near Fort Monroe. Under arduous labors, his health 
gave way, and in Nov. 1864, he left the service, and died Dec. 17th, 
1864. 

* David Lewis Johns. Enlisted at Chicago in one of the earliest 
regiments raised there, but almost immediately after, was taken 
sick, and died in camp, Dec. 25th, 1861. 

1832. 

Robert Wilson. Sept. 24th, 1862, commissioned Col. of 14th N. 
H. Vols. ; not promoted, though often performing Brigade and Dis- 
trict service. Served from Oct., 1862, to April, 1863, in Valley of 
Potomac, between Great Falls and Harper's Ferry, Gen. Grover 
commanding ; April, 1863, to Jan. 7th, 1864, in defenses of Washing- 
ton, Gen. Martindale commanding ; Jan. and Feb., 1864, independ- 
ent command in West Va., hunting guerrillas ; April 12th, 1864, re- 
pprted to Gen. Banks at New Orleans, and placed in command of 
District of Carrollton ; June 7th, joined 19th Army Corps at Red 
River, La., under Gen. Emory ; July 21st, 1864, reported to Gen. 
Grant at City Point, Va. ; Aug. 18th, to Gen. Sheridan, near Berry- 
ville, Va. Sick with diphtheria, Jan., 1864 ; with malarial fever 
July, 1864, on account of which, resigned, and was mustered out 
Sept. 6th, 1864. 

1833. 

WiLLUM Oliver Collins. Commissioned Col. of 11th Ohio Vol. 
Cavaky in the summer of 1861 ; reported to Gen. Halleck, at St. 



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Louis, and ordered to open communications to Salt Lake City. 
Advanced, in March, 1862, to Fort Laramie, and from thence up 
the North Platte to South Pass, leaving detachments at various 
points. Though nominally in the Dept. of Missouri, District of 
Nebraska, and under Gens. Halleck, Custis, Schofield and Pope, 
was, to all practical purposes, a detached and independent com- 
mander, over a district extending from the junction of the North 
and South Platte, to Green River in Utah Territory, including the 
tribes of the Sioux, Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Utes. En- 
agements numerous and sufferings intense, but no great battles or 
campaigns. Retiirned in spring of 1865, and was mustered out at 
Omaha. 



1834. 

Sahiuel Hopkins Emery. April, 1862, commissioned by Secre- 
tary Stanton to visit the army with nurses and stores. Sub- 
sequently appointed Hospital Chaplain, and served at Quincy, 111., 
until close of the war. 



William Graves Williams. Sept. 23d, 1864, commissioned Hos- 
pital Chaplain; mustered into service at Ashfield, Mass., Oct. 8th ; 
stationed at Jackson Hospital, Memphis^ Tenn ; in that and the 
W^ashington and Marine Hospitals of that city, served till July 27th, 
1865 ; Chaplain of U. S. General Hospital and U. S. MiHtary Prison, 
at St. Johns, Ark., Gen. Reynolds commanding. Mustered out at 
St. Louis, May 26th, 1866. 



John Harvey Wright. Commissioned Asst. Siirgeon U. S. Navy, 
1839, from that to Surgeon, 1855. By reason of infirm health, was 
— placed on the reserved list at an early period of the war. 



1836. 

Alfred Brewster Ely. Nov. 9th, 1861, commissioned Quarter- 
master 13th Conn. Vols., with rank of Lieutenant ; Nov. 11th, 1861, 
appointed Aid-de-camp to Brigadier Gen. Benham in West Virginia ; 



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resigned from 13tli Conn., and appointed 1st Lieutenant Co. 1, 11th 
Conn. Vols., and senior Aid to Gen. Benham. March 2Gth, 1862, 
appointed acting Asst. Adj. Gen., Northern Division of Dept. of the 
South, under Gen. Benham. In active service at Hilton Head, 
Beaufort, Fort Pulaski, &c. April 30th, 1862, appointed Asst. Adjt. 
Gen., with rank of Captain. After battles of Edisto and Stono, 
ordered North, and served on staff of Maj. Gen. Morgan. On sick 
leave for several months from disease contracted in the marshes 
of the Edisto and the Stono. Resigned in 1863. 



Edwaed Cokrie Pritchett. Sept. 10th, 1861, appointed Chap- 
lain 50th N. Y. Regt. (Engineers), brigaded under Gens. Woodbury, 
Butterfield, and Benham, with Army of Potomac under Gens. 
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade. In active service at siege 
of Yorktown, the march to Hampton, battle of Mary's Heights, and 
below Fredericksburg ; during campaign of the Wilderness detained 
at Washington with Brigade Hospital. Sick with Virginia fever 
during campaign on the Chickahominy, but never lost a day. 
Mustered out Sept. 20th, 1864 



Nath^^niel Richaedsom. May 6th, 186-1, appointed Chaplain 36th 
Mass. Vols. Served before Petersburg, most of the time in Field 
Hospital of 9th Army Corps, under Gen. Biu'nside ; sick at Campbell 
Hosj^ital, Washington, and Annapolis, Md., twelve weeks. Mustered 
out at Alexandria, June, 1865. 



1837. 

* James Averill. Commissioned Oct., 1862, Chaplain 23d Conn. 
Vols. ; in Department of the Gulf, at Camp Parapet and La 
Fourche under Gen. Banks ; taken with malarial fever in May, and 
died at La Fourche, June 11th, 1863. 



Robert Stevens Hitchcock. Commissioned Chaplain 2nd Md. 
Regt., Aug. 1st, 1861 ; served under Gen. Burnside, in S. C. and 



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Va., at 2ncl battle of Bull Kun, Chantilly, Autietain aud Fredericks- 
biu-g ; transferred to Ky, ; severely .wounded, and left in cliarge of 
Hospital in Franlifort, Ky. Resigned soon after. 



1838. 

Joel White Fletcher. Aug. 23d, 1861, commissioned 2nd Lieut. 
Co. I, 21st Mass. Vols. ; on detached and recruiting ser\ice ; arm 
fractured, and in consequence resigned June 20tb, 1862. 



Henky Obed Mayo. Commissioned Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy, 
Feb. 24tb, 1816 ; promoted to Surgeon, Jan. 21tb, 1859 ; served in 
Mediteranean, Home, and Brazil squadrons until opening of the 
war ; 1861, sloop Savannah ; 1862-3, steam sloop Powhatan, South 
Atlantic sqiiadron ; 1864-5, flag-ship of West India squadron. 



John Spare. Commissioned Apr. 10th, 1862, at New Bedford, 
Mass., acting Asst. Surgeon, U. S. N. April, 1863, served in Mediter- 
ranean squadron, blockading the Sumpter at Gibralter and watch- 
ing blockade runners ; 1863-4, on the blockade at Wilmington, 
N. C; battle of Fort Fisher, Admii'al Porter commanding; 1864-5, 
blockade of Charleston ; off that city at its evacuation ; 1865-6, in 
Giilf squadron at Apalachicola, Pensacola, &c., under Admiral 
Thatcher. Sick with dyspepsia, three weeks, at Norfolk Navy Yard, 
Dec. 1864. Resignation accepted July 2nd, 1866, at Pensacola 
Navy Yard. 



^Charles Ellery Washburn. Commissioned 1862, Surgeon 112th 
N. Y. Vols. ; promoted Brigade Surgeon and Medical Director of 
Gen. Ames' Division of Gen. Terry's command; participated in 
some of the bloodiest battles of the war, the last of which was the 
storming of Fort Fisher; taken sick with typhus fever at Wilming- 
ton, N. C. while caring for returned Union prisoners, and died April 
10th, 1865. 



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1840. 

Thomas Grier Murphey. Commissioned Sept. 23d, 1861, at Wil- 
mington, Del., Chaplain IstRegt., Del. Infantry, with rank of Cap- 
tain of Cavalry. Re-commissioned, Oct. 1st, 1864, in same regiment, 
the first in the army of the Potomac mustered in as veterans; par- 
ticipated in the following battles : capture of Norfolk, Va., May 10th, 
1862, under Ge^. Wool ; Antietam, Md., Sept. 17th, 1862, Gen. Mc- 
Clellan ; Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 12th, 1862, Gen. Burnside ; 
Chancellorsville, Va., May 13th, 1863, Gen. Hooker ; Gettysburg, 
Pa. July 2d and 3d, Gen. Meade ; Wilderness, Va., May 5th to 12th, 
1864,' Gen. Meade ; Spottsylvania, Va., May 12th to 17th, Gen. 
Meade ; before Petersburg, June, 1.5th, 1864 — Apr. 2nd, 1865 ; cap- 
ture of Gen. R. E. Lee, and Army of Northern Va., at Appomattox 
Court House, AprU 9th, 1865. Sick with typhoid fever during first 
winter of the wai', and also in summer of 1862, at time of battle of 
Antietam. Mustered out, July 14th, 1865, at Wilmington, Del. 

1842. 

Lauren Armsby. Commissioned Jan. 1863, Chaplain 8th Minn. 
Vols. In battle with Sioux Indians, vaUey of the Little Missouri, 
Aug. 8th, 1864, Gen. Sully ; near Murfreesboro', Dec. 4th to 7th, 1864, 
Gen. Milroy. For a month cut off from all supplies, at Fortress 
Rosecrans ; fi-om there marched to Clifton, Tenn., then transpor- 
ted to Washington ; ordered to Fort Fisher, thence to Beaufort 
and Newbern ; March 21st, 1865, joined Sherman's army at Golds- 
boro', and started in pursuit of Gen. Johnston ; on Gen. Lee's sur- 
render left Gcu. Sherman at Raleigh, and marched to Charlotte, N. 
C. Mustered out there, July 11th, 1865. 

Edward Duffield Neill. At commencement of the war, commis- 
sioned Chaplain 1st Minn. Vols. Served at Bull Run, Chickahom- 
iny, Fair Oaks, Wilderness, and MiUtary Hospital in Philadelphia. 
Resigned, Jan. 1864. 



1843. 

Calvin Holmes. Commissioned Nov. 26th, 1862, at Cincinnati, C, 
in Paymaster's Dept., rank of Major; promoted Lt. Colonel, Jan. 1865. 
Serv-ed at Washington, Fortress Monroe, with armies of the Poto- 



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mac an<l James, Txnder Gens. Butler, Schenck, Meade and Grant 
Mustered out July, 1809, at Washington, D. C. 

1844. 

Daniel Dwight Hitchcock. Commissioned Feb. 28th, 1863, at 
Bentonville, Ark., Asst. Surgeon with rank of Captain, 2nd Indian 
Regt. Home Guards. Served at Prairie Grove, and in vari- 
ous march'3S in Missouri and Arkansas, but mostly in Hospital 
service in tlie field and at Fort Gibson. IMarch 14th, 1865, ap- 
pointed Medical Inspector 3d Brigade, 3d Division, Gen. J. M. 
Thayer. Health poor, but off duty only two weeks. Arrested at 
home and property confiscated Aug. 15th, 18(52, and held prisoner 
for three months. Mustered out May 31st, 1865, at Fort Gibson, 
Cherokee Nation. 

1845. 

Charles Louis Woodworth. Commissioned March 30th, 1862, 
Chaplain 27th Mass. Vols. In action at Trenton, N. C, July 26th, 
1862 ; Ball's Ford, Nov. 2nd, 1862 ; siege of Washington, N. C,. 
Mar. 30th to Apr. 16th ; Gum Swamp expedition, Apr. 28th, 1863 ; 
battle Walthals' Junction, May 5th, 1864 ; Arrowfield Church, Va., 
May 9th, 1864 ; Drury's Bluff, May 16th, 1864 ; Cold Harbor, June 
1st to 3d, 1864, and Petersburg, June 18th, 1864 ; under Gens. Burn- 
side, Foster, Wild and Butler. Mustered out June 20th, 1864. 

1846. 

Daniel Emerson Barnard. Commissioned Sept., 1862, Captain 
88th lU. Infantry ; served in Kentucky campaign, near Nashville 
and Murfreesboro', Tenn., 1862-3 ; advance. on Tullahoma, Bridge- 
port and Chattanooga, 1863 ; near Knoxville and in Atlanta cam- 
paign, 1864, under Gens. Buel, Eosecrans and Thomas, command- 
ing united armies at Chattanooga and Atlanta ; Corps Commanders, 
Gens. McCook, Grangei', Howard, Stanley and Wool ; Division 
Commanders, Gens. Sheridan, Newton and Wagner. Mustered 
out near Nashville, Tenn., June, 1865. 

Samuel Mark Fletcher. En'ist3d Oct. 8th, 1862, in 12th R. L 
Vols., as a private ; promoted Asst. Surgeon, Apr. 25th, 1833 ; served 



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in first battle of Fredericksbui-g, under Gen. Burnside, Gen. Sum- 
ner commanding Division. March, 1863, transported to Kentucky 
under Gen. Burnside, Corps Commander, and Gen. Nagle, Division 
Commander ; occupied Lexington, Winchester, Richmond, Lancas- 
ter and Jamestown. ; returned July 5th ; mustered out at Provi- 
dence, July 27th, 1863. 



Salem Marsh Plimpton. Commissioned Sept., \861, Chaplain 
4th Vt. Vols. At close of one year resigned on account of ill 
health. 



Harvey James Skiff. Enlisted Oct., 1861, Co. B, 13th Iowa In- 
fantry, as private ; promoted Nov. 3d, Quartermaster Sergt. ; 
March 12th, 1862, Captain of Co. B ; served in advance on Corinth 
Sept. and Oct., 1862 ; siege of Vicksburg 1863 ; taking of Atlanta 
1864. Division Commander, most of the time. Gen. McArthur. 
Commanders of Army of Tennessee, Gens. McPhersoii aud Howard ; 
Dept. Commanders, Gen. Halleck at Corinth, Gen. Grant at Vicks- 
burg, Gen. Sherman at Atlanta. Suffered much from sickness. 
Mustered out Nov. -Ith, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

1847. 

George Soule. Commissioned Dec. 15th. 1861, Chaplain 11th 
Conn. Vols ; served in expedition to Newbern, N. C, under Gen. 
Burnside. Resigned on account of ill health Aug. 2nd, 1862. 

1848. 

William Smith Clark. Commissioned Aug. 21st, 1861, Major 21st 
Mass. Vols. ; promoted Lt. Colonel, Feb. 28th, 1862 ; Colonel, 
May 16th, 1862 ; served at Eoanoke Island, Newbern, Camden, 2nd 
Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, 1st Fredericksburg, 
under Gens. Reno and Bui-nside, Pope, and McClellan. Resigned 
and honorably discharged, Apr. 22nd, 1863, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

*Samuel Fisk. Enlisted Aug. 1862, at Madison, Conn., in 14th 
Conn. Vols., as jDrivate ; promoted 2nd Lieut., and 1st Lieut., and 
Capt., Co. G, 14th Conn. Vols. ; served in Army of Potomac at An- 



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tietam, Chiincellorsville, Eredericksburg, Gettysburg iind Wilder- 
ness ; on special service as Inspector of Brigade, and Aid on staff 
of Gen. Carroll ; taken prisoner at Cliancellorsville but liberated in 
a few weeks. On 6th of May, 18G4, in battle of tbe Wilderness, 
mortally wounded ; and died at Fredericksburg, Va., J\Iay 22nd. 

Georqk Washington Goodale. Aug. 18G2, commissioned Chaplain 
8th 111. Vols. ; transferred to the 49th 111. Vols. ; served at Camp 
Butler till the consolidation of that Regt. with another ; in Home 
Guards on frontier of Ilhnois till close of the war. 



Francis Augustine Howe. Enlisted as volunteer Surgeon, May 
17th, 1862 ; emplo^^ed in hospital service at Yorktown, Va., tillJune 
17th, 1862, time of the expiration of the contract ; sick with mala- 
rial fever. * 

John Franklin Severance. CommissionedMay 20th, 1864, Chap- 
lain 21st Mass. Vols ; served at battles of Wilderness, Spottsylva- 
nia. North Anna, Petersburg, at storming of Petersburg, and sur- 
render of Lee ; under Gen. Meade, commanding army, Gens. Burn- 
side and Porter, Corps Commanders, and Gen. Potter, Division Com- 
mander. 



1850. 

Jacob Merrill Manning. Commissioned Aug. 1862, at Boston, 
Chaplain 43d Mass. Vols ; served in battles of Kinston, Whitehall 
and Goldsboro, N. C. ; in movements around Newbern and Little 
Washington, spring of 1863 ; returned home July, 1st 1863 ; danger- 
ously sick with malarial fever six months. 

' 1851. 

Ethan Ely Boies. Appointed Asst. Paymaster, in 1863, and served 
till the close of the war. 

Bentley Howard Smith. Commissioned Major 42nd Pa. Vols., 
July 6th, 1863. Mustered out with Eegt. Aug. 12th, 1863. 



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1852. 

John Humpheey Almy. Commissioned Oct., 1861, State Agent for 
Conn., in New York City ; Nov., 1862, commissioned Asst. Quarter- 
master of the State, with rank and pay of Lient. Colonel of 
Cavalry. Served in this capacity through the war, with the ad- 
dition of taking the State Agency for E. I., attending to the trans- 
fer of regiments, supplies, sick and wounded soldiers through the 
city, both to and from the seat of war, as well as revising passes, ob- 
taining back pay, bounties, etc., etc. 



Augustus Greene Kimbeely. May 22nd, 1862, commissioned act- 
ing Asst. Surgeon. In battle of Chickahominy, May 30th, 1862 ; Fair 
Oaks, May 31st ; Mechanicsville, June 26th; Gaines' Mills, June 27th ; 
Chickahominy, June 28th ; Savage Station, June 29th ; White Oak 
Swamp, June 30th; Malvern Hill, July 1st, 1862; also in several smaller 
engagements. Served in charge of transport steamer, for carrj^ing 
sick and wounded from Fortress Monroe to Alexandria ; on duty 
at U. S. Genl. Hospital at Hampton, Va., from Sept., 1862, to March, 
"1864 ; on duty as Surgeon in charge of Hospital within 
*' inner line of defenses " of Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1864 ; in 
charge of Naval Brigade at Norfolk and Portsmouth. Served under 
Gens. P. St. G. Cooke, Pleasanton, Kilpatrick, and others. Se- 
vere sickness at Harrison's Landing, in Genl Hospital, and " in the 
field " near Norfolk, Va. Mustered oat, Aug. 31st, 1865. 

George Nelson Webber. Commissioned June, 1861, Chaplain 1st 
Conn. Vols, under Gen. Tyler; served in first battle of Bull Run. 
Mustered out at New Haven, Aug. 1861. 



1853. 

Abial Ralph Abbott. Enlisted April 19th, 1861, at Chicago, IH, 
as private in Co. A, 1st 111. Light Artillery ; promoted, corporal, 
sergeant, orderly-sergeant ; and Jan. 1st, 1862, 1st Lieutenant Co. 
E ; acting as Captain, commanding Co. E. at Shiloh and most of the 
time afterwards ; served in battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, 
and siegeof Vicksburg under Gen. Grant, commanding army, and 
Gens. C. F. Smith and Thomas, Division Commanders ; wounded 



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in tlie body at Shiloh, ami iu the leg in the Tallahatclue campaign 
against Gen. Bragg. Resigned, on account of v,onnds, after caj^ture 
of Vicksburg. 



*EzRA T. Bailey. Left College 18,52. Enlisted June 1st, 18 Gl, at 
New York, in the 9th N. Y. Vols. ; resigned soon after, and v/as ap- 
pointed Captain's clerk to Captain, (since Rear- Admiral,) Theodo- 
nis Bailey, on board IT. S. steam frigate Colorado ; sailed for Fort 
Pickens, Fla., in June ; taken sick vdih dysentery, and died Aug. 
4th, 1861. 

Henry Leonidas BoLTwood. Went to New Orleans, Api-il, 18G4, 
as agent of U. S. Sanitary Commission, and served as relief agent 
at New Orleans, Port Hudson, Baton Rouge and Mobile ; appointed 
Chaplain 67th U. S. C. I., Dec, 1864, but received no commission, 
and was not oa duty with the regiment ; served with U. S. San- 
itary Commission till June 1865. 

Bowman Bigelow Bkeed. Enlisted April 16th, 1861, in 8th Mass. 
Vols., as Surgeon, with rank of Major ; promoted Brev. Lieutenant- 
Colonel, Aug. 15th, 1865. Served in three months' campaign and 
Washington hospitals 1861-'62 ; Medical Purveyor 8th Army 
Corps under Gen. Foster, 1863 ; battles of Kinston and Goldsboro, 
N. C, 1863 ; in hospitals in St. Louis, Mo., and Nashville, Tenn., 
under Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, 1864-'65. Mustered out Aug. 15th, 
1865, at Lynn, Mass. 



John Alexander Hamilton. Commissioned, July 1862, at Keene, 
N. H., Chaplain, 6th N. H. Vols. ; served at battles of 2d Bull Run, 
Fredericksburg, and at siege of Vicksburg. Mustered out Aug. 
1863, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Stephen Edward Jones. May 1861, commissioned by Governor 
of Kentucky, 1st Lieutenant, and assigned to duty as Aid-de-camp 
upon staff of Major General Nelson ; July 1861, transfeiTcd to staff 
of Major General Thomas ; June 1862 transfen-ed to staff of Major- 
General Boyle, commanding district of Kentucky, Head-Quarters 



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at Louisville. Promoted to rank of C-'.ptnin, June 1863 ; acting 
Provost Marshal General of the District of Kentucky ; continued in 
the service on staff duty until the close of the war. 

Joseph Grant Longley. Left College 1?49. Enlisted in Slat 
Mass. Vol., Sept. 25th, 1862, Corporal ; promoted 1st Lieutenant 
Company -A ; served under Gen. Wille. ]\rustered out, July 
27th, 1863. 

Ralph Lysian Parsons. Commissioned acting Asst. Surgeon, 
July, 1862 ; stationed at General Hospital, Bedloe's Island, N. Y. 
Harbor; resigned, June 1st, 1863. 

*Henry PiEUBEN Pierce. Commissioned, Nov. 1862, 2d Lieutenant 
5th R. I. Infantry ; served under Gen. Burnside in expedition 
to Newberu, and fell at the battle of Newbern while leading his 
men in a successful charge on the enemy's rifle pits. March 14th, 1863. 

1854. 

Alexander Baxter Crane. Commissioned Aug. 15th, 1862, at Terre 
Haute, Ind., Captain 85th Ind. Vols. ; promoted, Sej)t. 4th, Lieutenant- 
Colonel ; Oct. , Provost Marshall ; July 21st, 1864, Colonel; stationed 
at NicholsviUe and Danville, Ky., and Nashville Tenn., under Gen. 
Granger in Reserve Corps of Army of the Cumberland, spring of 
1863 ; Aug. 1863, placed on the Board for examining applicants for 
office among colored troops, at Nashville, Tenn. ; spring of 1864, re- 
joined Regt. in Gen. Sherman's army; served in Atlanta Campaign, 
and "Sherman's March," and was in the battles of that army till the 
surrender of Johnson. Taken prisoner at Thompson's Station, March 
5th, 18G3, and transferred to Libby Prison, but exchanged in the 
middle of May, 1863 ; mustered out, June 12th, and discharged, 
June 28fch, 1865, at IndianapoHs, Ind. 

John C. Kimball. Oct. 2nd, 1862, commissioned Chaplain 8th 
Mass. Vols ; served in 8th Army Corps, at Newbern, Roanoake 
Island, and Elizabeth City ; June 25th, 1803, ordered to Baltimore, 
thence to army of Potomac after battle of Gettysburg ; mustered out 
Aug. 7th, 1863, at Wenham, Mass. 



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*Edwakd Burns Olcott. Enlisted 18 Gl, 5tli Regt. N. Y. Heavy 
Artillery ; served in various battles, and was taken prisoner at 
Staunton, Va., in summer of ISCl, and carried to Libby Prison ; died 
there of chronic diarrhoea, Aug. 9th, 18G4. 

Edmund Morris Pease. Commissioned Aug. Kith, 1862, Asst.- 
Surgeon, IGth Conn. Yols. at Hartford, Conn. ; discharged from 16th 
Conn., and apj)ointed in 9th U. S. C. I ; acting as Bi-igade 
Surgeon, Dec. 1st, 1863— May, 1865 ; Ma.y, 1865— Jan. 1866, 
served as chief medical officer 1st Div., 25th Army Corps ; 
Jan. 1866— Sept. 1866, chief medical officer of District of the 
Rio Grande. Served at "Old Church Hospital," Frederick City, 
Md.,at time of battle of Antietam ; at Suffolk, Va ; v»ith Gen. Dix's 
expedition near Richmond ; Benedict, Md. ; Port Royal, S. C. under 
Gen. Foster ; with Army of the Potomac before Petersburg, under 
Gen. Meade; vt'ith Army of the James, under Gens. Butler and Terry; 
with 25th Army Corps, at capture of Richmond; Brownsville, Texas, 
June 1865, iinder Gens. Steele, Weitzel and Sheridan, till Sejit. 1866; 
New Orleans, till Dec. 186G. Sick with typhoid fever, Nov. 17th, 1862 
— IMarch 1st, 18G3. Mustered out at New Orleans, Nov. 18G6, and 
discharged Dec, 2lBt, 186G, at Baltimore, Md. 

Ira W. Pettibone. Left College 1852. Commissioned Oct. 30th, 
18G1, Major 10th Conn. Vols. ; promoted, Lieut. Colonel, Feb. 8th, 
1862 ; Colonel, June 15th, 18G2. Served at battles of Roanoke Island 
and Newbern. Discharged on account of sickness, November 15th, 
1862. 

Henry Martyn Saville. Appointed ' Surgeon 4th Mass. Vols., 
April, 1861. Served at battle of Big Bethel and in hospitals. Aug., 

1862, left service in the field ; examiner of recruits for Norfolk Co., 
Mass., for the remainder of the war. 

1855. 

Edwin Cone Bissell. Commissioned Sept. 8th, 18G2, Captain Co. 
K, 52d Mass. Vols., at Westhampton, Mass. Served in Gen. Banks' 
Expedition to Louisiana, in the raid up Bayou Teehe and at the 
siege, assault and capture of Port Hudson. Mustered out, Aug. 14th, 

1863, at Greenfield, Mass. 



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Albert Heney Beidgman. August 14tli, 1862, enlisted at Maysville, 
Iowa, in Co. H, 32ad Iowa Vols, s private ; promoted to Sergeant. 
Served most of the time in hospital .and as clerk in Provost 
Marshal's office at Island No. 10 ; with the regiment in the IGth 
Army Corps, Army of the Tennesee, on two expeditions through 
Mississippi, in pursuit of Gens. Foresta nd S. D. Lee. August 29th, 
1864, furloughed from Memphis, and served with superintendent 
for- forwarding troops. Mustered out at Cairo, 111., July 21th, 1865. 

Francis Frederic Brows. Commissioned Dec, 18U2, at Eead- 
ville, Mass., Asst. Surgeon 48th Mass. Vols. ; served at ]3aton 
Kouge under Gen. Banks, Coj'ps Commander ; also at Port Hudson; 
sick for several weeks of malarial fever at Port Hudson. Mustered 
out, Sept. 5th, 1863, at Wenham, Mass. 

John Curtis Caldwell. Commissioned Oct. IGth, 18G1, Col. 11th Me. 
Vols.; promoted Brig. Gen., May loth, 18S2 ; and afterwards Brev. 
Maj. General. In battles of- Young's Mills, Yorktown, Lee's Mills, 
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Mechanicsville, Peach Orchard, Savage 
Station, White Oak Swamp, Charles City Cross Roads, Mah-ern Hill, 
2nd Bull Run, Autietam, Charlestown, Snicker's Gap, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Robertson's Tavern, Bristow 
Station, Auburn, Falling AVater, Mine Run and Morton's Ford. 
One of the guard of honor to escort Pres. Lincoln's remains to 
Springfield. Slightly wounded at Fredericksburg. Mustered out 
in Feb., 1866. 

RuFus Choate. Commissioned, May 28th, 1861, 2nd Lieut,,, 2nd 
Mass. Vols.; promoted Captain, Sept. 17th, 1863 ; served in battles of 
Jackson, Front Roj-al, Winchester, Cedar Mountain and Autietam ; 
suffered greatly from neuralgia throughout the service, and com- 
pelled by disease to resign Oct. 31st, 18G2. 

John Jay Colton. Commissioned Paymaster of Vols., Feb. 24th, 
1865, with rank of Major. Stationed at Philadelphia for payment 
of mustered-out soldiers. Mustered oat Sept. 1st, 1805, at Philadel- 
phia. 



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MicAH Sampson Ckoswell. Commissioned 1st Lieut. Co. E, 8tli 
Minn. Vols., Ang. 25th, 1862, at Fort Snellin-. Minn ; March 27th, 
1863, promoted Commissary with rank of Captain ; Jan.' 1866, 
Brev. Major; May, 1866, Brev. Lieut. Col. Served at MonticeUo', 
Minn. ; Fort Ripley, on the Upper Mississipi>i ; summer of 1863, on 
expedition against Sioux Indians, under Gen. Sully ; May, 1864— 
March, 1865, at Fayettevill, Ark., Gen. Steele, commanding ; March, 
1865— Aug., 1866, at Fort Smith, Ark. Sick at Fayette°ville with 
dysentery, and at Fort Smith with chills and remittent fever. 
Mustered out Aug. Mi, 1866. 

GEORCiE Edward Dunlap. Commissioned Aug., 1862, at Rochester, 
Mass., in Co, C, 51st Mass. Vols., Orderly Sergeant ; served in ex- 
pedition to Goldsboro' ; at battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro". 
N. C, under Gen. Foster ; stationed at Beaufort and Fort Macon, 
N. C, at time of battle of Gettysburg ; at Baltimore, searching for 
concealed arms and prisoners. Mustered out, July 27th, 1863, at 
Worcester, Mass. 



Asa Severance Fiske. Commissioned Jan., 1862, Chai^lain 4th 
Minn. Vols., at St. Paul, Minn ; served at Corinth, luka and Vicks- 
burg, under Gens. Grant, Rosecrans, Pope and Sherman. For two 
years in charge of Fi-eedmen in District of Memphis, by order of 
Gen. Grant. Mustered out April, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Appleton Howe Fitch. Commissioned May, 1864, 1st Lieut. 
Co. F. 139th 111. Vols., at Peoria, 111. Mustered out Oct., 1864. at 
Peoria. 111. 

*Edward SmTH Gilbert. Enhsted April 20th, 1861, at Rochester 
N. Y., Co. D, 13th K Y. Vols.; elected 2nd Lieat ; May 1st, promo- 
^-Eed Captain 25th N. Y. Vols.; Major, April 17th, 1862," and Lieut.- 
Col., Sept. 12th, 1862. Served at l.st and 2nd Bull Run, Hanover 
Court House, Yorktov/n, Mechanicsville, and Gaines' Mills, under 
Fitz Jolm Porter, commanding Division, and Gen. McCleUan com- 
manding Army. Taken prisoner at Gaines' Mills, June 14th, 1862 • 
carried to Richmond, and exchanged Aug. 16.h, at Hariison's 
Landing. Died, Feb. 22nd, 1863, from disease contracted in Rich- 
mond, Va. 



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* Dixi Crosby Hoyt. Enlisted July, 1861, iu 13th Mass. Vols., at 
Westboro', Mass. Discharged soon after on account of sickness. 
Commissioned Post Surgeon at Readville, in summer of 1862, and 
Asst. Surgeon 5th Mass. Vols., Oct. 22nd. Engaged in several 
battles at Newbern and Eanston, N. C. Mustered out July 2nd, 
1863, and Aug. 24th of the same year appointed 1st Asst. Surgeon, 
2nd Mass. Heavy ArtiUery. Stationed at Beaufort and Newbern, 
N. C.; died there of yellow fever, Nov. 1st, 1864. 

George Lowell Montague. Left College 1854. April 29th, 1861, 
enhsted at Beloit, Wis., iu 6th Wis. Vols.; commissioned 1st Lieut. 
May, 1861; resigned in Nov. of same year, to assist in raising 
troops. Aug. 11th, 1862, enlisted at So. Hadlej', Mass., in 87th 
Mass. Vols. Promoted Captain, Aug. 13th, 1862 ; Major, Sept. 
4th, 1862; Lieut. Colonel, Jan. 17th, 1863; Brev. Colonel, May 
Sept. 12th, 18G4, for distinguished gallantry at Spottsylvania Court 
House ; in command of the Regt. fi-om May 6th, 1864, except when 
in command of Brigade. Served at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg* 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, 
Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, &c., under Gens. Burnside, 
Franklin, Hooker, Meade, Sedgwick, Grant and Sheridan. 
Wounded at battle of Wilderness, and three times at S^Dottsylvania 
Court Horse, but not seriously; absent from command less than 
thirty dtxys, and resigned on account of injury received from fall of 
his horse, March 4th 1865. 

Joseph Brown Reynolds. Commissioned May 2nd, 1864, at 
Boston, in 49th Mass. Vols. Asst. Surgeon; in battle of Port Hudson, 
May 27th, and June 14th, 1863, under Major Gen. N. P. Banks. Mus- 
tered out at New Orleans, in May, 1864. 

Ezra Thompson Sprague. Enlisted April 1861, at Madison, Wis., 
in Co. K, 1st W^is. Vols. ; promoted Corporal and Sergeant ; Com- 
manding Adjutant 8th Wis. Vols., Oct. 1861; Sept. 13th, 1864, 
promoted Colonel 42nd Wis. Vols; served at Falhng Waters, and 
FredericktoAvn, Md., New Madrid, Island No. 10, luka, Corinth, 
Vicksbm'g, Pensacola, Red River expedition ; stationed as com- 
mander of the Post, at Cairo, Sept., 1864 ; left the service July, 
1865. 



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Chauncey BoARDiNL^N Thomar. Jimo 6th, 1862, commissioned Hos- 
pital Chaplaiu at Washington, D. C. Served at Alexandria, Va., 
June, 1862 — July, 1863; at New Orleans, La., until mustered out 
July 13th, 1866. 



Charles Henry Walton. Commissioned 1st Lieut. 6th N. Y 
Vols, at New York, in Autimm of 1861. Promoted acting- Asst. 
Quartermaster. Served at Santa Rosa Island, Fla.; sick with 
swamp fever and resigned in Autumn of J 862. 

John Loren Wilson. Enlisted Aug. 5th, 1862, at Springfield, 
111., in 114th 111. Vols. Elected Captain; promoted Asst. Provost 
Marshal at Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 27th, 18G4, and Provost Marshal 
Oct., 1864. Served at Memphis and Vicksburg under Gen. Grant. 



1856. 

James Marsh Ellis. Commissioned May 28th, 1861, 2nd Lieut. 
Co. B. 2nd Mass. Vols ; assigned to staff duty with Gen. Banks, as 
Captain and Commissary of subsistance ; Nov. 22nd, 1861, trans- 
ferred to staff of Gen. Abercrombie. In 1863 commissioned Lieut. 
Col. and Chief Commissary of subsistence, 23d Army Corps, oh 
staff of Gen. Hartsuff. Served in Shenandoah campaign under 
Gens. Patterson and Banks ; 2nd Bull Run, Gen. Pope ; Antietam, 
Gen. McClellan ; Fredericksburg, Gen. Burnside ; East Tennessee, 
Gen.'Hartsuff ; Baton Rouge, and Red River campaign, Gen. Banks. 
Resigned, Oct., 1864. 

* Edwin Coleman Hand. Enlisted early in the war and assisted in 
raising a company for 10th N. Y. cavalry, in which he was commis- 
sioned 2nd Lieut., and promoted Capt. Served through the war ; 
was at the battle of Antietam, and in several cavalry raids. Died 
of typhoid fever, at Binghamton, N. Y., June 27th, 1865. 

Augustus Harrington. Mustered into the 136th N. Y. Vols., at 
Camp Portage, Livingston Co., N. Y.; left camp for the front, Oct. 
2nd, 1862 ; promoted Capt., commission dating from Sept. 2nd, 



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1862 ; iu reserve divisiou at Fredericksburg, and afterwards on 
picket and outpost duty on the Rappahannock ; in the advance at 
Bank's Ford, Va., Jan. 21st, 1863. Resigned, and mustered out, Jan. 
22nd, 1863. 



Thoi\L4.s Peverly Herrick. Commissioned early in the war as 
Capt. of 7th Kansas Cavahy, and promoted Col. Served at battles 
of Corinth, CoifeevHle, and Tupellos, in Mississijjpi, in command of 
Brigade. Suffered from neuralgia, but served to the close of the 
war. 



William Bird Kimball. Enlisted May, 1861, at Westboro', 
Mass., in 13th Mass. Vols. Promoted Sergt., July 19th, 1861 ; 
Commiesary Sergt., March 1st, 1862 ; 2d Lieut., May 25th, 1862 ; 
1st Lieut., Feb. 27th, 1863 ; Captain, Oct. 4th, 1863. Served at 
2nd Bull Bun, under Gen. Pope ; on detached service in Com- 
missary Dept. at time of Antietam and 1st Fredericksburg battles ; 
2nd Fredericksburg under Gen. Hooker, Gen. Reynolds, Corps 
Commander ; at Gettysburg under Gen. Meade, and Gens. Reynolds 
and Doubleday, Corps Commanders ; in campaign of Wilderness, 
Gen. Warren, Corps Commandei*. Mustered out at Boston, August 
Xst, 1864. 



Stillman Rice. Commissioned at Madison, Conn., Sept. 10th ^ 
2nd Lieut. 27th Conn. Vols. ; j^romotcd 1st Lieut., March 13th, 
1863. Served at Fredericksburg under Gen. Burnside ; Gen. Sum- 
ner, Division Commander ; Chancellorsville, under Gen, Hooker ; 
Gettysburg, under Gen. Meade. Taken prisoner at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3d ; 1863, reached Libby Prison May 8th ; paroled May 
13th. Mustered out at New Haven, Conn., July 27th, 1863. 



Samuel Chester Staples. Commissioned Major, Sept. 15th, 1862. 
Served in Army of the Potomac as Paymaster, from Sept. 1862 to 
Jan. 1863 ; ordered to Newbern, N. C, under Gen. Foster, but in 
July, returned again to Army of the Potomac ; served under Gens. 
Kilpatrick, Gregg and Pleasanton ; Feb. 8th, 1864 ordered to 
Santa Fee, New Mexico, thence to El Paso, Texas, and Department 



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of Arizona, under Gen. Castleton ; in spring of 1866 ordered to 
Department of CaUfornia, under Gen. McDowell. Mustered out 
at Santa Fee, July 20th, 1866. 



1857. 

John Henry Bo.vlt. Commissioned June 26th, 1863, Ist Lieut. 
11th Ohio Cavalry. Mustered out, April 1st, 1865. 



JosiAH Copley. Left College, 1856. Enlisted June 26th, 1861, in 
Co. F, 21st 111. Vols. Served in Missouri under Col. U. S. Grant ; 
fought at Fredericktown, Mo., 1861, under Col. Carlin ;. siege of 
of Corinth, under Gen. Pope ; battle of Perryville, Ky., under 
Gen. Mitchell ; Knob Gap, Tenn. and Stone River, 1862, under 
Gen. McCooke ; Liberty Gap and Chicamauga, 1863. Sick with 
hemorrhage and swamp fever. Confined in Libby Prison ; Damdlle, 
Va. ; Andersonville, Ga. ; Florence, S. C. Mustered out at Spring- 
field, 111., June 28th, 1865. 



Alva Lillie Frisbie. Commissioned Chaplain of 20th Conn. 
Vols., Aug., 1868. Present at Resaca, and skirmish at Cassville, 
Ga. ; marched with Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta ; served 
under Gens. Sherman, Slocum, Hooker and Thomas. Mustered 
out, July,1864. 



Thomas Gordon Grassie. Commisssioned Chaj)lain in 108 th N. Y. 
Vols., AprH 26th, 1864, at Falmoath, Va. In Imttles of Chancel- 
lorsville, Gettysbiu-g, Bristow Station, Wilderness, Ream's Station 
and Deep Bottom ; served under Major Gens. Couch, Warren and 
Hancock ; in August, 1863, on sick leave twenty days. Attacked 
with malarial fever in August, 1864, and obliged to leave the ser- 
vice. Mustered out at Washington, D. C, Jan., 1865. 



George Trask Higley. Enhsted Oct. 8, 1864, at N. Y. City, in 
13th N. Y. Cavalry ; acting Company and Q. M. Sergeant. On de- 
fenses at Washington ; in pursuit of Mosby's and Johnson's guer- 



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illas ; served under Brig. Gen. Gamble. Mustered out at Wash- 
ington, D. C, Sept. 25th, 1865. 



Ferdinand Shaw. EnHsted Jan. 14th, 1862, at Albany, N. Y., in 
12th N. Y. Light Battery. Promoted Q. M. Sergeant April 5th, 
1863 ; Lieut, and Quartermaster, Aug. 11th, 1864 ; Commissarj- 
of Subsistance, rank of Brev. Major, July 6th, 1865. Throughout 
the campaign before Richmond, commencing active service at Gettys- 
burg. Served under Gens. Meade and Grant ; also served in Com- 
missary Dept. one year after surrender of Richmond. Mustered 
out at Fredericksburg, Va. April, 1866. 

1858. 

Timothy Field Allen. Commissioned Aug., 1862, acting Asst. 
Surgeon, U. S. A., from New York. Stationed in hospital at Point 
Lookout, Mo. Resigned after serving four months. 

Daniel Jay Bliss. Enlisted in 34th Mass. Vols., July 7th, 1862, 
at Ware, Mass. Fought at Newmarket, May 15th, 1864, Gen. Sigel 
commanding. Wounded and disabled for the rest of the war. 
Mustered out at Washington, D. C, June 27th, 1865. 

Ethan Allen Paul Brewster. Commissioned 2ud Lieut. 8th 
Mass. Vols., April 30fch, 1861. Mustered out Aug. 1st, 1861. -Com- 
missioned Captain 23d Mass. Vols., Oct. 8th, 1861. Promoted 
Major, May 5th, 1863. Served at battles of Roanoke, Newbern, 
Rawles' Mills, Kinston, Goldsboro and Appomattox. Mustered out 
Oct. 13th, 1864. 

James Collins. Commissioned Surgeon 3d Regt. Pa. Reserve 
Corps, June 21st, 1861.; Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A. Feb. 10th, 1864 ; 
Surgeon, U. S. A. Feb. 7th, 1865 ; Brev. Lieut. Col., June 1st, 1865 ; 
in battle at Mechanicsville, Gaines' MiUs, Peach Orchard, Charles 
City Cross-Roads, 2nd BuU Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Wil- 
derness and Petersburg. Under Gens. McCall, McDoweD, Porter, 
Reynolds, Crawford and Meade. Confined in Libby Prison. Mus- 
tered out, July 19th, 1865, at Washington D. C. 



Army and Navy Eoll. 23 

Horace Smith Fuller. Commissioned acting- Asst. Siu-o-eon, XJ. 

S. A March 30tL, 1865. Ordered to McDougal Genl. Ho.spital, 
Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Harbor. Honorably discharged at closing of 
Hospital, Aug. 18th, 18G5. 

* Joshua Barker Flint HoBBs. Left College 185G. Commissioned 
1st Lieut. Co. F, 1st Mass. Cavalry, at Boston, Oct. 1863; promoted 
Captain ; fought at Culpepper, Auburn, Todd's Tavern, around 
Richmond, Vaughn's Road, St. Mary's Church and Cold Harbor ; 
disabled by the explosion of a shell ; in hospital at Annapohs. 
Mustered out at Boston, Oct. 1864. Died, Jan. 6 th 1865, from inju- 
ries received in the service. 

Chester AVarner Hawley. Commissioned Chaplain, Oct. 10th, 
1864, 185th Regt. N. Y. Vols. With Regt. before Petersbui-g; at 
Weldon R. R. raid, Dec, 1864 ; Hatcher's Run, March 29th ; White 
Oak Road, March 31st; and at surrender of Gen. Lee, at Appomattox 
Court House, April 9th, 1865. Under Gens. Meade and W?irner. 
Mustered out at Washington, D. C. May 3d. 18G5. 

*Henry Martyn Kellogg. Left College 1857. Enlisted in sum- 
mer of 1861, in Co. C, 33d Regt. Rl. Lifantry, at Bloomington, El. 
Promoted Lieut, and subsequently Capt. Sick at St. Helena, Ark. 
Killed at siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 20th, 1863. 



Havllah Mowry Sprague. May 26th, 1 861, commissioned Asst. 
Surgeon U. S. A., with rank of 1st Lieut. In battle of Wilson's 
Creek, Aug. 10th 1861 ; afterwards on Gen. Halleck's Staff a.s 
medical attendant at Corinth, Miss. Ordered to St. Louis in the 
Autumn of 1862 ; in charge of General Hospital at St. Louis in 
spring of 1863; in N. Y. City, in Avitumn of 1863, member of a 
Medical Board of Examination ; in summer of 1864, in charge of 
Genl. Hospital at Fort Schuylar N. Y". Harbor; in Autumn of 
1864, on Examining Board at N.Y. City. Resigned at N. Y. City, 
May 1st, 1863. 

Henry Goddard Thomas. Eahsted April 27th, 1861, at Port- 
land, Me., in Co. G. 5th Me. Vols.; commissioned Capt., May 4th 



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1861. Appointed Capt. 11th Infantry, U. S. A., Aug. 5th, 1861, for 
gallantry in McDowell Campaign ; Col. 2nd Regt. U. S. colored 
troops March 1st, 1863 ; Col. 19th Regt. (colored) Dec, 1863 ; 
Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols., Nov. 30th, 1864 ; Brev. Maj. Gen., March 
13th, 1865; Brev. Maj. U. S. A., from battle of Spottsylvania ; Brev. 
Lieut. Col., from explosion of Petersburg mine, July 30th, 1864; Brev. 
Col. and Brev. Brig. Gen., for gallantr}^ in campaign of 1864, and trans- 
ferred to 20th Infantiy U. S. A., July 28th, 1866. Served under 
McDowell in Vii'ginia campaign of 1861 ; went to La., in 1863, 
under Gen. Banks; returned to Army of Potomac, soon after ordered 
to ^Maryland, and raised a Colored Regt.; joined 9th Corps under 
Gen. Burnside, in command of Brigade, May 3d, 1864; in Grant's 
campaign fi'om Wilderness to fall of Richmond, then transferred to 
army of the James. Sick with gastric and malarial fever. Captured 
Aug. 1st, 1864, and released next day. Since close of the war in 
command of Fort Rawson, Dakotah Territory. 



Justin Edwards Twitchell. Commissioned May 29th, 1863, at Day- 
ton, Ohio, Chaplain 131st Ragt., Ohio Vols. Stationed at Fort Fed- 
eral Hill, Baltimore, Md. Mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 
25th, 1863. 



1859. 



William Lee Apthorp. Enlisted at Kingston, N. Y. in the 90th 
N. Y. Vols. Promoted Sergeant, June 27th, 1862 ; Capt. 2nd S. C 
Vols, (colored) March 3d, 1863 ; Lieut. Col., March 1st, 1865. 
Served during the war in Dept. of the South. On Morris Island 
during siege of Charleston and bombardment of Fort Sumter, and 
in all the operations from S. C, to Florida, under Gens. Hunter, 
Gilmore and Foster. Mustered out at Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 28th, 
1866. 



Jajies Fitzgerald Claflin. Enlisted in 5th Mass. Vols., at Marl- 
boro, Mass. In battles of AVhitehall and Kinston, and in all the 
marches and skii-mishes under Gen. Foster during winter of 1862-3. 
Sick with congestive fever, and returned home, July, 1863. Mustered 
out at Boston, in Aug., 1863. 



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* Joshua Gilman Hawkes. Enlisted in the 52nd Eegt. Mass. Vols., 
in the Autumn of 1832. Soon promoted Sergeant. In Jan., 1863, 
while in camp at Baton Kouge, was sick with camp fever, but recov- 
ered so far as to accompany Eegt. in the Teche expedition in April 
and May ; at the siege of Port Hudson and the aissault of the 14th 
of June. On the 23d of July, embarked with his Regt. on the 
steamer Chouteau for Cairo ; the next morning was missing. Prob- 
ably feU overboard in. the night. 

^Sidney "Walker Howe. Commissioned 1st Lieut, in 1st Regt. 
N. Y. Excelsior Brigade under Gen. Hooker. Killed at battle of 
Williamsburg, May 5th, 1862. 



Philander Ueav. Enlisted in 75th Regt. N. Y. Vols., Sept. 14:th, 

1861, at Auburn, N. Y. ; promoted Hospital Steward, March 14th, 

1862, and Chaplain 4th La. Native Guards, April 11th, 1863. Present 
at the engagement at Bayou La Fourche, Oct. 26th, 1862; 1865, in 
campaign against Mobile ; and at the capture of Fort Blakely, 
April 8th, 1865. Mustered out at New Orleans, Dec. 81st, 1865. 

Luther Rominor Smith. Commissioned junior 1st Lieut., 9th Mich. 
Light Battery, Aug. 14th, 1862, at Detroit, Mich. ; promoted Capt., 
early in 1864 ; fought at battle of Gettysburg under Gen. Stahl ; in 
Autumn of 1863 in Army of the Cumberland, and next spring trans- 
ferred to 20th Army Corps under Gen. Hooker ; participated in all 
the battles in which that corps was engaged until fall of Atlanta. 
Mustered out at Detroit, Mich., July, 1865. 

Henry Tupper. Enhsted in the 36th Mass. Vols., July 14th, 1862, 
at Monson, Mass. Promoted Sergeant; v.itli the Army of the Poto- 
mac from Sept. 7th, 1862, to Feb. 1863; at 1st battle of Fredericks- 
-Jbarg, and afterwards transferred to Newport News; March 20th sent 
to Kentucky, in June to Vicksburg, and after its surrender, in the 
pursuit of Gen. Johnston. Served under Gens. McCleUan, Burn- 
side, Hooker, Grant, and Sherman ; sick with chills and fever in 
Kentucky, and sent to Portsmouth Grove Hospital, R. I. ; after re- 
covering, placed in 2nd Veteran Reserve Corps. Discharged, July 
14th, 1865. 



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John Stites "^Vhilldin. Commissioned Asst. Surgeon of 145th 
Pa. Vols., Sept. 12th, 1862 ; promoted Surgeon of 208th Pa. 
Vols., Feb. 25th, 1865 ; served with Army of the Potomac, and in 
mearly all its battles from Antietam to surrender of Lee at Appo- 
mattox. Discharged June 1st, 1S65. 

EicHARD Morris Wyckoff. Commissioned acting Asst. Surgeon, 
IJ. S. A., rank of Capt., Aug. 3d, lt,61 j served at McDougal General 
Hospital near Fort Schuyler, and on hospital transport S. K. 
Spalding. Mustered out July 20th, 1865. 

1860. 

Horace Binney. Commissioned 2nd Lieut. 118th Pa. Vols., Aug. 
30th, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieut., then Captain. On the stafif of 
Maj. Gen. Wright ; April 18 bh, 1863 — June 1865 ; Aide-de-Camp to 
Brig, and Brev. Maj. Gen. Neil; Brev. Maj. U. S. Vols. Served in 
all general engagements of Army of Potomac from Antietam to 
Petersburg ; in battle of Winchester ; wounded in first day's battle 
of Wilderness. Mustered out June 7th, 1865. Subsequently com- 
missioned 2d Lieut. 20th U. S. Infantry. Resigned June 30th, 1867. 

Justin Perkins Kellogg. Enhsted Aug. 20th, 1862 in 52nd 
Mass. Vols. Promoted 2Ld Lieut. Sept. 12th, 18G2, and 1st Lieut. 
Oct. 28fch ; in Gen. Banks expedition to New Orleans; also in expe- 
dition against Port Hudson, March, 1863 ; and Bayou Teche in 
Western La. in April ; in the fight at Irish Bend, and in siege of 
Port Hudson. Eesigned Aug. 14th, 1863. 

*JosEPH Mason. Appointed Hospital Steward of the hospital ship 
Euterpe, July, 18G2. August 5th to 25th, acting Medical Cadet at 
the MiU Creek Genl. Hospital. Died of typhoid fever at Mill Creek, 
near Fortress Monroe, Nov. 19th, 1862. 

* Lucius Lathrop Merrick. Enhsted July, 1862, in 36th Mass. 
Vols. ; promoted Sergeant. Served in defense of Knoxville, Gen. 
Burnside, commanding ; wounded, and taken prisoner ; in battle 
of Wildernes, May, 1864, again wounded ; in battle near Peters- 
burg shot through the body and captured by the rebels. Died on 
one of their Hospital boats, Oct. 7th, 1864. 



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WiLLL^M De Forest Prentiss. Commissioned May 26th, 1861, 
•2nd Lieut., in Co. G, 31st N. Y. Vols. Promoted 1st Lieut. Oct., 
1861, and Capt., Dec, 1861. Served at 1st Bull Run, West Point, 
Gaines' Mills, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, South Mountain and 
Antietam, under Gens. McDowell and Franklin. Mustered out on 
account of sickness, at Frederick, Md., Sept. 29th, 1862. 



Edward Olcott Shepard. June 16th, 1862, commissioned 1st 
Lieut. 32d Mass. Vols.' Promoted Capt., Nov. 11th, 1862 ; Major, 
June 30th, 1864 ; Brev. Lieut. Col., Feb. 6th, 1865. Seiwed in bat- 
tles of Gainesville, 2nd Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysbiu-g, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
North Anna, Petersburg, and at Weldon Raili'oad. Under Gens. 
Meade, Warren, Griffin, and Fitz J. Porter. Wounded at Gettys- 
burg, Wilderness, Petersburg ; wounded and taken prisoner at 
Hatcher's Run, Feb. 6th, 1865. Mustered out at Boston, July 17th, 
1865. 



Samuel John Storrs. August, 1862, enlisted in 52d Mass. Vols. ; 
promoted Capt., August, 1£62, and Lieut. Col. Nov. 19th, 1862 ; 
served in the Teche campaign, spring of 1862; Port Hudson, sum- 
mer of 1862. Under Gens. Grover, Weitzel and Banks. Mustered 
out at Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 5th, 1863. 



Francis AmvvV Walker. July, 1861, commissioned Sergt. Major 
15th Mass. Infantry, and appointed Capfc. Asst. Adj. Gen., Sept. 
1861 ; Maj. Asst. Adj. Gen., Aug., 1862 ; Lieut. Col. Asst. Adj. Gen., 
Jan., 1863 ; Brev. Col. of Vols., 1864 ; Brev. Brig. Gen. of Vols., 
1865. Served with Gen. Stone on Upper Potomac, in summer of 
1861 ; with Couch near Washington, Sept., 1861 ; Peninsular cam- 
paign with McClellan ; siege of Yorktown ; battle of Williamsburg ; 
Fair^aks ; " Seven Days " ; 2nd Ball Run ; Antietam, Fredricks- 
bui'g, under Burnside, and Chancellorsville, under Hooker ; in 
campaign of Gen. Grant, 1861 ; battles of Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Wounded at 
Chancellorsville ; captured at battle of Ream's Station, Aug., 1834; 
paroled Oct., 1864. Resigned, Jan., 1835, on account of disease 
contracted in prison. 



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Lewis Willard West. Enlisted Sept. 16th, 1861, in 27th Mass. 
Vols., at Hadley, Mass.; promoted Corporal, Nov. 1st, 1861 ; served 
in Burnside's expedition to North Carolina ; battles of Roanoke 
Island, Newbern, N. C. ; Gen. Foster's expedition to Goldsboro' ; 
battles of Kinston and Whitehall. Sick with bilious fever, and 
twice with diphtheria. Mustered out at Newbern, N. C, April Ist, 
1863. 



Edward Reed Wheeler. Commissioned Asst. Surgeon in 24th 
Mass. Vols., May 10th, 1864 ; pronjoted Surgeon, Nov. lOfch, 1864. 
Served at Drury's Bluff, Va. ; Deep Bottom, Va. ; Deep Run, Va. ; 
Petersburg, Sept. ; Darbytown Road, Va. ; under Gens. Butler, R. 
S. Foster, Terry, Binney, Ames and Turner. Mustered out at 
Richmond, Va., Jan. 20th, 1866. 



1861. 



Ed-\vin Norton Andrews. Commissioned Chaplain in 2nd N. J. 
Cavalry at Memphis, Tenn., Jan., 1864. Served in several cavalry 
raids under Gen. Grierson ; sick with remittent fever at Memphis, 
Feb., 1865." Mustered out March 21st, 1865. 

John Perkins Apthorp. Enlisted Aug. 28th, 1862, in 10th Mass. 
Light Battery at Boston ; served in defenses of Washington, under 
Gen. Heintzelman ; battle of Auburn, under Gen. French ; battle 
Kelly's Ford, Nov., 1868, under Gen. Humphrey; battle of Wilder- 
ness ; Spottsylvania ; battle of North Anna, under Gen. Hancock ; 
Cold Harbor ; siege of Petersburg ; Ream's Station ; Hatcher's 
Run ; Lee's retreat and sun-ender. Mustered out at Galloups Is- 
land, Boston Harbor, June 9th, 1865. 



Thomas Blagden. Feb., 7862, appointed Captain's Clerk, U. S. 
steamer Housatonic ; commissioned acting Ensign and attached to 
Admiral Dahlgren's Staff in June, " 86 * ; served in blockade off 
Charlestown, S. C, and in bombardment of Forts Wagner, and 
Sumtei'. Resigned November, 1833. 



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Chaeles E. Chenery. Left College 1858. June 18th, 1862, entered 
naval service as acting Asst. Paymaster on board steam sloop Nar- 
ragansett, Pacific squadron ; commissioned Paymaster May 4tli, 
1866, and served in North Atlantic squadron under Rear Admiral 
J. S. Palmer. Resigned Sept. 15th, 1868. 



Edward Comstock. Commissioned Oct. 1st, 1862, 1st Lieut, and 
Adjt., 46th N. Y. Vols. ; promoted Brev. Capt. and Major. Served 
in battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellors ville, Gettysburg, and in 
aU marches of Army of the Potomac from Nov., 1862 to Aug., 1863; 
Staff officer in Cavalry during Gen. Sherman's advance from Chat- 
tanooga to Atlanta. Under Gens. Burnside, Hooker, Meade and 
Sherman. Resigned at Chattanooga, Aug. 28th, 1864. 



Sidney Crawford. Commissioned Asst. Paymaster, Aug. 13th, 
1864. Stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and Denver City, Col. 
Left the service Aug. 13th, 1865. 



James M. CusHMAN. Left College 1858. April 16th, 1861, enlisted 
in Co. G, 4th Mass. Vols. Served at Fortress Monroe as clerk at 
chief headquarters ; in battle of Big Bethel under Gen. Butler ; 
afterwards stationed at Newport News and Hampton, Va. Mustered 
out at Long Island, Boston Harbor, July 22nd, 1831. 



John Dole. Ma}', 1862, enlisted on Volunteer Medical Staff ; 
served in the seven days' fight in Peninsula campaign ; appointed 
Medical Cadet in the Regular Army, and transfeiTed to Army Gen- 
eral Hospital, New Haven, Ct., under Post Surgeon Jewett. 

John Herbert Evans. Oct. 15th, 1861, commissioned 1st Lieut. 
56th Ohio Vols., at Portsmouth Oliio. Promoted Capt. Nov. 20th, 
1861. Served at Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, 1862 ; marched to 
Memphis and St. Helena ; in two expeditions up White River to 
Duval's Bluff, Ark ; in expedition against Vicksburg ; battles of 
Port Gibson, Miss., Raymond, Champion Hills ; siege of Vicksburg ; 
expedition to Jackson ; transferred to Army of Gulf ; joined Gen. 



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Banks' Reel River expedition ; in battle of Sabine Cross Roads. 
Sick with fever at St. Helena, Ark. Mustered out at New Orleans, 
Nov. 25th, 1864. 

Samuel Page Fowler. Sept. 1862, enlisted in Co. K, 8th Mass. 
Vols., at Danvers, Mass. Promoted Sergeant, Sept., 1&62. 
Served in campaign in N. C, from Nov., 1862, to July, 1863, under 
Gen. J. G. Foster and Gen. Hoffman ; sick in Hospital from May to 
July. Mustered out at Wenham, Mass., Aug., 1863. 



Elijah Harmon. Enlisted in 52nd Mass. Vols., at Hawley, 
Mass.j Aug. 15th, 1862, and soon after promoted Sergeant. 
Served in campaign of 1863, resulting in captm-e of Port Hudson, 
under Gen. Banks. Mustered out at Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 14th, 
1£63. 



*Henry a. Hubbard. Left College 1858. Commissioned Sept. 
20th, 1861, at Springfield, Mass., Capt. Co. I, 27th Mass. Vols. 
Served in Burnside's expedition ; taken sick and died at Roanoke 
Island, Feb. 12th, 1862. 



Arthur Kemble. Left CoUege 18^8. Commissioned Aug. 1861, 
acting Asst. Surgeon, U. S. N. Served in North Atlantic squadron ; 
at siege of Fort Macon. Resigned May, 1862. 



Charles Goodrich King. Enhsted May 26th. 1862, in 10th R. 
L Vols., at Providence, R. I. ; appointed Hospital Steward, 
June 1st, 1862. Mustered out at Providence, R. I.. Sept. 10th, 
1862. 



Frederic B. Lawson. Le!"t College 1S5S. Sept. 16th, 1862, com- 
missioned acting Asst. Su-geon, U. S. N. Served 1862-1864 on 
sloop I)ale, at Eey West, East Gulf s^^uac^on. Rear Adm ral Bailey 
commanding; 1 61-65, staamer H intsville ; 1865, ship Sabine, 
Norfolk, Va. Resigned Nov. 20th, 1.65. 



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JosKPH Allen Leach. Commissioned Feb. 1st, 18B4, Chaplain 
19th U. S. C. T., at Baltimore, Md. ; acting Aide-de-Camp. With 
Army of the Potomac most oi" the time till close of the war. Mus- 
tered out at Washington, D. C, Juno, 18G6. 



Edwin Rufus Lewis. Sept. isc, 1831, commissioned 1st Lieut, 
and Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Lewis Wallace ; resigned Dec. 1866. 
Enhsted in 21st Mass. Vols., Aug. 23d, 1862 ; promoted Sergt 
Major., Dec. 3d, 1862; 1st Lieut, and Adj., April 26th, 1883; 
Capt., June 18fch, 1864. Served at battle of Fredericksburg, Blue 
Springs, Tenn., Campbell's Station, siege of Knoxville, Wilderness, 
Va., Spottsylvania, Shady Grove Road, Cold Harbor, Petersburg 
Mine, Weldon R. R. Wounded twice at Fredericksburg antl once 
during siege of Knoxville. Mustered out Aug. 30th, 1.864. 

James Lewis. Aug. 14th, 1862, commissioned Capt. Co. C. 144th 
N. Y. Vols. Promoted Lieut. Col., July 3d, 1863 ; Col. Nov. 27th, 
1864. Served at siege of Suffolk in Spring of 1863 ; under Gen. 
Dix on Peninsula ; at siege of Charleston, and bombardment of 
Fort Sumter ; capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg, in Aug. and 
Sept., 1S63 ; in engagement on James Island, Feb. 10th, 1865. 
Mustered oat at Elmira, N. Y., July 14th, 1865. 

Daniel Thurber Nelson. Served in Hospital transport service 
June — August, 1861 ; acting Medical Cadet at Mass. Genl. Hospital, 
Boston, Mass., Aug., 1862 — March 1865 ; acting Asst. Surgeon in 
armies of the James and Potomac until close of the war ; in cam- 
paign before Richmond and Petersburg ; battles in pursuit of Gen. 
Lee. Mustered out at Richmond, Va., June 20th, 1865. 

Henry C. Room. Left College 1858. Commissioned 1st Lieut 
N. Y. Vols. Promoted Captain, with command of Regt. at Rich- 
mond, 1865. 

Frederick Milton Sanderson. Augaist, 1861, onhsted as private 
in 21st Mass Vols., at Worcester, Mass.; promoted 1st Sergt., Oct 
5th, 1861; 2nd Lieut, March 3d, 1862; l^t Lieut., July 21st; 
Capt., Sept. 2nd. Served at Roanoke Island in Feb. 186 1 ; Fred- 
ericksburg, Rapidan River, Culpepper Court House, Bull Run, 



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Chantilly, Frederick City, Md., So. Mountain and Antietam. Under 
Gens. Burnside, Reno and Slaerman ; slightly wounded at Roanoke 
Island. Mustered out at Mt. Sterling, Ky., April 25tli, 1865. 

Moses Porter Snell. Enlisted Aug. 6th, 1862, in 36th Mass. 
Vols., at North Brookfield, Mass. Appointed 1st Lieut. 39th U. S. 
C. T., April 26th, 186 i, at Baltimore, Md. ; served in Wilderness 
campaign, and seige of Petersburg ; Sept. 23d, 1864, detailed as 
acting Aid-de-Camp to Maj. Gen. Crawford ; in 1st and 2nd battles 
of Hatcher's Run, White Oak Road, Five Forks, and at Lee's Sur- 
render ; for services in this campaign, promoted Brev. Capt. ; after- 
wards served as A. A. D. C. to Gen. Duncan at Newbern, N. C. 
Mustered out in Dec. 186-1. 

Edwin James Sweet. Left College 1858. June 21st, 183 1 , enhsted 
in Co. G, 40th N. Y. Vols., at Yonkers, N. Y. Promoted Corporal, 
June 1st, 1833 ; Sergt., Feb. 1st, 1863 ; 1st Sergt, March 1st ; 2nd 
Lieut., June 5th, 1863 ; 1st Lieut, and Adj., Feb. 5th, 1864 ; Brev. 
Maj., April, 1865. Served at siege of Yorktown, Va., April, 1862, Wil- 
liamsburg, May 5th, Fair Oaks, May 31st, and June 1st ; Malvern 
HiU, July 1st ; 2nd Bull Kun, Aug. 30th ; Chantilly, Sept. 1st ; 
Fredericksbm-g, Dec. 13th; Chancellorsville, May 5th, 1863 ; Gettys- 
burg, July 1st, 3d ; Wilderness, May 5th, 6 th, 1864 ; Spottsylvania, 
May 12th ; North Anna, May 24th ; Cold Harbor, June 3d ; 
Petersburg, June 16th and IS^h ; under Gens. McClellan, Heintzle- 
man, Kearney, Biu-nside, Hooker, and Meade ; wounded in the 
breast at Gettysburg, July 2d, 1863 ; sick with pneumonia, in 
Spring of 1864. Mastered out at N. Y. City, July 18th, 1864. 

1862. 

Edward Adams. Left college 18 "59. Appointed Surgeon's Steward, 
Feb. 13th, 1865, on U. S. Steamer Wachusetts ; March 5th sailed 
in search of Rebel Privateer Shenandoah ; afterwards joined the 
Asiatic squadron, under Rear Admii-al Bell. Discharged at N. 
Y. City, Feb. 8th, 1868. 

Francis Wayland Adams. Enlisted in 51st Maes. Vols., at Brook- 
field, Mass., Sept., 1862. Promoted Ist Lieut., Oct. 8th. Served 
in N. C. under Gen. Foster ; at battles of Kinston, Wliitehall and 



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Goldsboro. Sick with malarial iexer, and obliged to return North. 
Resigned Jan. 25tli, 1863. 

Washington Irving Allen. Left College 1S61. Commissioned* 
1st Lieut. Co. D., 31st Mass. Vols., at Ware, Oct. 9th, 18G1. 
Promoted Capt., Dec. 21tb, 18G2 ; Major, Nov. 21th, 1861 ; Lieut. 
Col., June 7th, 1865. Served at siege and capture of New Orleans ; 
Port Hudson ; in Gen. Banks' Red River expedition ; in battles of 
Sabine Cross Roads, Mansfield, Cave River Crossing and Yellow 
Bayou ; assault on Spanish Fort and capture of Mobile. Under 
Gen*. Butler, Augur, Grierson, Banks and Dudley. Wounded at 
Port Hudson, June 14th, 1863. Mustered out at Mobile, Ala., Sept. 
9th, 1865. 

Augustus Alvord. Left College 1860. Enlisted in 1st Conn. 
Heavy Artillery, at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 24th, 1863. Promoted 
Chaplain 31st U. S. C. T., Feb. 9th, 1865. Served before Richmond 
and Petersburg ; at capture of Richmond and surrender of Lee ; 
in expedition to Western Texas. Under Gen. Grant in Army of 
the James, and Gens. Sheridan and Weitzel, in Texas. Mastered 
out in Texas, Oct., 1865. 

Arthur Gardner Biscoe. Enhsted in 51st Mass. Vols., Aug. 25th, 
1862. Served under Gen Foster in battle of Whitehall, N. C, Dec. 
16th, 1862. Mustered out at Worcester, July 27th, 1863. 

Joseph Willard Brown. Left College 1860. Enlisted in Co. K, 
7th Mass. Vols., at Abington, May 24th, 1861. Promoted 
2nd Lieut., July 15th, 1854. Served at Washington, Fredericksburg* 
Shenandoah Valley, Beaufort and siege of Suffolk ; in command of 
Fort Ethan Allen, Va. , and Fort Leavenworth, Kan. ; Cottonwood 
Springs, Neb., Fort Larmie, Wyoming Ter., in expedition against 
the Indians. Mustered out at Washington, D. C, Dec. 16th, 1865- 

Joseph jOlark Clieford. Commissioned Sergt. 42nd Mass. Vols, 
at Medway, Sept. 3d, 1862. Promoted 2nd Lieut., Nov. 12t.h,' 
1862. Served in Dept. of the Gulf, under Gens. Sherman and 
Banks. Mustered out at Readville, Aug. 20th, 1803. Commissioned 



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1st Lieut. 5th Heavy Artillery, at Concord, N. H., Sept. Sth, 1864 ; 
Acting A. D. C. to Gen. Haskins in Dept. of Washington, Nov. 
1864 — June, 1865. Mustered out at Concord, June 22nd, 18G5. 
Appointed 2nd Lieut, in Ordnance Dept. U. S. A., June 23d, 1865. 
Since the war. at St. Louis Arsenal. 

Ezra Christian Ebeesole. Enlisted in Pa. Cavalry, Home Guards, 
June, 1863. Served three months in State defense. Mustered out 
and re-enlisted in 44th la. Infantry, at Davenport, la., June 1st, 
1864. Held rank of Sergt. and served at Memj)his and La Grange, 
Tenn., under Gen. Washburn. Mustered out at Davenport, la. 
Sept. 10th, 1864. 

Dyer Ball Nelson Fish. Left College 1859. Commissioned 
Asst. Surgeon 27th Mass. Vols., at Boston, Jan. 9th, 1863. Pro- 
moted Surgeon Sept. 20th, 1864. Served in siege of "Little Wash- 
ington, Gum Swamp, Port Walthall, Arrowfield Church, Drury's 
Bluflf, Cold Harbor, and siege of Petersburg. Under Gens. Foster, 
Butler, Smith, Ord, Palmer and Schofield. Mustered out at New- 
bern, N. C, June 26th, 1865. 

Henry Allen Ford. Left College 1859. Commissioned 2d Lieut, 
Co. F, 19th Mich. Infantry, July 28th, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieut., 
April 24th, 1862, and Capt., June 1st, 1864. Served in battles of 
Thompson's Station, Resca, Dallas, Cassville, Beechtree Creek, Ben- 
tonville ; Kentucky campaign, against Smith and Bragg, and 
Sherman's raid through Carohnas. Under Gens. Dustin, Baird, 
Butterfield, Granger, Williams, Hooker, Rosecrans and Sherman. 
Captured at Thompson's Station, Tenn., March 5th, 1863, and con- 
fined two months in Libby Prison. Mustered out at Washington, 
D. C, June 9th, 1865. 

Lucius Fayette Claek Garvin. EnHsted in 51st Mass. Vols., at 
Worcester, in Nov., 1862. Served at Kinston, Whitehall and 
Goldsboro, under Gen. Foster. Suffered much from sickness, and 
mustered out at Worcester, Mass., July, 1863. 

Henry Hill Goodell. Commissioned 2nd Lieut., Co. F, 25th 
Conn. Vols., at Hartford, Ct., Aug. 16th, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieut. , 
April 14th, 1863 ; A. D. C. on Staff in 19th Army Corps, July 8th 



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of the same year. Served at Irish Bend, Vermilhoii, siege of Port 
Hudson and in the Teche campaign. Mustered out at Hartford, 
Ct., Aug. 26th, 1863. 

*Henry Gtridley. Commissioned 1st Lieut., 150th N. Y. Vols., 
at Amenia, N. Y., Sept. 6bh, 1862. Served in battle of Gettys- 
burg, pursuit of Lee ; transferred to Army of Tennesee in fall of 
1 863 ; Sherman's march to Atlanta ; battle of Marietta, Ga. Sick 
with fever at Kellogg's Ford in summer of 1863. Killed at battle 
of Marietta, June 22nd, 1864. 

Eben Thomas Hale. Left College 1859. Enlisted in Co. A, 
45th Mass. Vols., at C!amp Meigs, Eeadville, Mass., Aug. 30th, 1862. 
Served at Goldsboro, lunston and Whitehall. Mustered out at 
Readville, Mass., July 8th, 1863. 

Samuel Harrington. Left College 1861. Commissioned 1st 
Lieiit., 25th Mass. Vols., at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 12tli, 1861. 
Promoted Capt., Nov. 5th, 1862 ; Lieut. Col., Jan. 10th, 1865. 
Served at Roanoke, Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Port 
Walthall Junction, Arrowfield Chiu-ch, Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, 
Petersburg and Wise's Forks. Under Gens. Burnside, Foster, 
Butler, Smith and Meade. Mustered out July 13th, 1865. . 

Thomas Henderson. Left College 1859. Commissioned Asst. 
Surgeon, Feb. 3d, 1863. Served in Lawton Gen'l Hospital at St. 
Louis, Mo., Gen'l Hospital at RoUa, Mo. and Harney Gen'l Hospital. 
Sick with Varioloid. 

Charles Marsh Kittredge. Appointed Orderly Sergeant 13th 
N. H. Vols., at Mt. Vernon, N. H., Sept. 1st, 1862. Promoted 2nd 
Lieut., May 1st, 1863. Served at Fredericksburg, siege of Suffolk 
and Peninsula campaign. Under Gens. Burnside and Getty. 
Wounded at Fredericksbiu-g, Dec. 13th, 1862. Sick at Norfolk, 
~Y^., Aug. 1863. Resigned Nov. 14th, 1863. 

Alva Aziza Knight. Commissioned 1st Lieut. 2nd S. C. Vols., 
at Beaufort, S. C, April 13th, 1864. Promoted Cap(., Oct. 12th, 
1865. Served at James Island, Fort Wagner, Morris Island, John's 
Island, Devaux Landing and Honey Hill. Under Gene. Hunter, 
Gilmore, Hatch, Foster, and Birney. Mustered out at Jacksonville, 
Fla., Feb. 12th, 1866. 



36 ' Amheest College 

Zecharl^h Edwari>s Lewis. Commissioned Asst. Surgeon, tJ. S. 
A., June 7th, 18o4. Served at Jefferson Grenl. Hospital, Jefferson- 
ville, Ind. Left the service Sept. 7th, 1864. 

RuFus Pratt Lincoln. Commissioned 2nd Lieut., 37th Mass. 
Vols., at Amherst, Mass., Aug. 27th, 1862. Promoted Capt., Oct. 
15th, 1862 ; Major, July 17th, 1864 ; Lieut. Col., March 4th, 1865 ; 
Col., May 19th, 1865. Served at battle of Fredericksburg, Mary's 
Heights, Franklin's Crossing, Gettysburg, Rappahannock, Mine 
Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cedar Creek, Hatcher's Run, 
Petersburg and Ta^'lor's Creek. Wounded at Wilderness and 
Spottsylvania. Mustered out, July 29th, 1865. 

George Macomber. Commissioned 1st Lieut. 34th IMass. Li- 
fantry, Aug., 1862. Promoted acting Adjt., June, 1863 ; acting 
Asst. Inspt. Gen., Army of West Va., July, 1864 ; Capt., Sept. 1864 ; 
transferred to 24th Mass. Vols., and promoted Brev. Major, June, 
1865 ; 2nd Lieut., 14th U. S. Lifantry, May 1866 ; 1st Lieut. 32nd 
U. S. Infantry ; Brev. Major U. S. A., March 2ud, 1867. Served at 
Ripon, Newmarket, Piedmont, Snicker's Gap, Winchester, Hallstown, 
Berryville, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Hatcher's Run, Petersburg 
and Appomattox Court House. Under Gens. Hunter and Sheridan, 

Edward Morris. Left College, 1860. EnHsted in 46th Mass. 
Vols., at Springfield, Aug. 29th, 1861. Served at Newbern and 
Plymouth, N. C, under Gen. Foster. Mustered out at Springfield, 
July 29th, 1863. 

Frederick Daniels Morse. Enlisted in 42nd Mass. Vols., at 
Medway, Sept. 3d, 1862. Served at battle of Brashear City, in 
Array of the Gulf, under Gen. Banks. Captured at Brashear City, 
June 22nd, 1863, and paroled June, 26th. Mustered out at Read- 
ville, Aug. 20th, 1863. 

*Elliott Payson, Left College 1859. Enlisted in Naval service 
at Cincinnati, O., Feb., 1863. Served on gunboat Tecumseh, in 
Western giuilcat licet. Died of pneumonia, at Cairo, 111., March 
24th, 1863. 

Cyrus Murdock Perry. Commissioned Chaplain 24th N. Y. Cav- 
alry, April 14th, 1865. Served under Gen, Sheridan. Mustered 
out at Syracuse, N. Y. Aug. 4th, 1865. 



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Alvah Mills Richardson. Enlisted iii 45th Mass. Vols., at Boston, 
in Aug., 1862. Served in Gen Foster's expedition and battles 
of Kinstou and Wluteliall. Sick -with typhoid fever. Mustered 
out at Boston, in Aug., 1863. 

Samuel Augustus Stoddard. Enhsted in 24th Light Artillery, at 
Perry, N. Y., Sept. 5th, 1862. Promoted Corporal, Oct., 1862. 
Served in battle of NeAvbern and at Plymouth, N. C. In hospital 
eight Aveeks with remittent fever. Mustered out at Syracuse, N. Y., 
July 7th, 1865. 

Mason Whiting Tyler. Commissioned 2nd Lieut., 37th Mass. Vols., 
at Amherst, Mass., Aug. 1st, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieut., Sept. 4th, 
1862 ; Capt., Jan. 17th, 1863; Major, March 4th, 1865; Lieut. Col., 
May 19th, 1865 ; Col., June 26th, 1865. Served in battles of 1st and 
2nd Fredericksburg, Burnside's Campaign, Salem Chm-ch, Gettys- 
burg, Ra^jpahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
Hanover Junction, Coal Harbor, Petersburg, Fort Stearns, Summit 
Point, Winchester, Hatcher's Run and Forts Steadman and Sedgwick. 
Wounded at Winchester and Fort Sedgwick. Mustered out at 
Washington, D. C, July 2nd, 1865. 

Samuel Colville Vance. Commissioned Capt., 27th Mass. Vols, at 
Springfield, Oct. 9th, 1861. Promoted Maj., 70th Ind. Vols., 
Aug. 9th, 1862 ; Col., 132nd Ind. Vols., 1863. Served in battles of 
Roanoke, Newbern, and Russellville, Ky. Under Gens. Thomas and 
Burnside. Mustered out at Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 5th, 1863. 

George Warrington. Commissioned 1st Lieut., 8th U. S. C. T. at 
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14th, 1863. Served in battle of Olustee, Fla. 
and in Dept. of the South, under Gen. Seymour. Wounded at 
Olustee, Feb. 20th. 1864. Mustered out at Annapolis, Md., Oct. 3d, 
1864. 

' 1863. 

William Nelson Batchelder. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 
102nd N. Y. Vols, at N. Y. City, Dec. 10th, 1861. Promoted 2nd 
Lieut., April 5tb, 1862, 1st Lieut., July 16th, and Capt., Nov. 12th, 
of same year. Served at Harper's Ferry, Cedar Mountain and 
Antietam. Under Gens. Banl<s, Fremont, Pope, McClellan and 



38 Amherst College 

Hooker. Woiindecl at Cedar Mountain and in hospital one month. 
Eesigned in April, 1 863. 

Jonathan Bigelow. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 3d. Maine 
Vols., June 5th, 1861. Promoted Capt. and received gold medal 
for gallantry at Frederictsburg ; during latter part of the Avar com- 
manded G5th U. S. C. T. Served at siege of Yorktown, 1st and 2nd 
Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, White Oak Swamp, 
Malvern Hill, Chantilly, and Fredericksburg. Wounded three times. 
Under Gens. McClellan, McDowell, Pope, Burnside, Hooker and 
Banks. Mustered out in spring of 1865. 

Ami Ruham.\h Dennison. Left College 1861. EnUsted in 27th 
Mass. Vols., Aug., 1861. Promoted Capt., 1862 and Major, Feb. 10th, 
1864. Served at Roanoke Island, Newbern, Kinston, '^Vhitehall, 
Cloldsboro, Gum Swamp, Chickahominy, Drury's Bluff, Petersburg 
and Richmond. Mustered out Nov. 1st, 1864. 

Joseph Edgar Dickson. Left College 1862. Ajipointed Asst. 
Prof, of Ethics, &c., in V. S. Naval Academy. Served on Academic 
Staff U. S. Naval Academy, Newport, R. L, 1862-1865, under Com. 
G. S. Blake ; since the war, in same position. Naval Academy, An- 
napolis, Md. 

James Dingwell. Left College 1860. Enlisted in R. I. Vols., at 
Providence, R. I., Sept. 17th, 18G2. Served at Suffolk, Va., Black- 
water expedition and Dismal Swamp. Mustered out at Providence, 
July 13th, 1863. 

Edgar Leroy Draper. Left College 18G 2. Enlisted Medical Cadet 
IT. S. A., Dec. 10th, 1862. Promoted Brev. 2nd Lieut., and Asst. 
Surgeon, U. S. N. Served at Trinity, Harvard and Capitol Hospi- 
tals. Resigned Aug. 30th, 1865. Appointed Asst. Surgeon 40th 
U. S. C. T. Served in battles of Clarendon and White River. Mus- 
tered out at Chattanooga, Tenn., April 25th, 18(j6. 

George Ephraim Fuller. Left College 1861. Enlisted as Hos- 
pital Steward, in 27th Mass. Vols., Sept 20th, 1861. Mustered out 
Sept. 22nd, 1864. Re-enHsted Hospital Steward U. S. A., Nov. 4th ^ 
1864. Served at Roanoke, Newbern, Kiuston, siege of Little 
Washington, Cold Harbor and Petersliurg. Mustered out at Wash- 
ington, D. C, April 30th, 1866. 



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Nelson Newton Glazier. Left College L8G2. Enlisted iu lltli 
Vt. Vols., Aiig. nth, 18G2. Promoted Corporal, Nov., 1862 ; 2nd 
Lieut., Nov., 1803; Ist Lieut., Jan., 18G4. Served at Wasliinjifton, 
and in Va. campaigns. Lost left arm at Spottsylvania Court 
House, May 18th, 18G1. Discharged Sept. 3d, 1864. 

Clarke Hewitt Griggs. Enlisted Hospital Steward, U. S. A., at 
Washington, I). C, Jan. 8tli, 18G4. Served at "Washington and ' 
Nashville, in Dej^t. of the Cumberland, under Gen. Thomas. Dis- 
charged Aug., 18G5. 

Edward P.vyson Jackson. Left College 18G2. Enlisted in 45th 
Mass. Vols., Sept., 18G2. Promoted Corporal, June 2nd, 1863. 
Commissioned 2nd Lieut. 5tli Mass. Vols., July 27th, 1863. Served 
in battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', and Bachelor's Creek. 
Mustered out Nov. 16th, 18G4. 

Henry Orlando Marov. Left College 18G0. Commissioned Asst. 
Surgeon 43d Mass. Vols., at Newbern, N. C, AjDril 27th, 1863. Mus- " 
teredontat Pieadville. Mass., July 3d, 1863. Commissioned Sur- 
geon, 35th U. S. C. T., Oct. 1st, 1863. Served at Olustee, Fla., 
Honey Hill, DevauV Creek, siege of Cliarleston and campaign of 
Carolinas. Under Gens. Gilmore, Seymour, and Sherman. Re- 
signed at Charleston, S. C, June 25th, 1865. 

Edward M.wnard. Left College 1860. Enlisted in 1st East 
Tenn. Regt., Sept. 1st, 1861. Promoted 2nd Lieut.; Adj.; Lieut. 
Col., April, 18G2. Served at MiU Springs, Chickamauga, Nashville, 
and Atlanta campaign. Under Gens. Nelson, Anderson, Sherman, 
and Schofield. Seriously injured in Atlanta campaign, by falling 
from horse. Mustered out at Nashville, in 1865. 

Paeker Whittlesey McManus. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 
27th Mass. Vols., at Springfield, Mass., Sept. 2Gth. 1861. Promoted 
-1st Lieut., Oct. 16th, 1861 ; Capt., June 24th, 1864. Served at Ro- 
anoke, Nevs^bern, siege of Little Washington, Post Walthall Junc- 
tion, Arrowfield Church, and Drury's Bluff. Under Gens. Burnside, 
Fo.ster and Butler. • Taken i)risoner at Drury's Bluff, May I2tli, 
1864, and confined in Libby, Savannah, Charleston and Columbia 
prisons. Escaped Nov. 29th, 1864, and travelled two hundred 
miles by iiiglit tlu'ough swamps and woods to Union Hnes. Sick 
with typhoid fever and diphtheria. Mustered out at Washing- 
ton, D. C, Feb. 7th, 1865. 



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William Fessenden Merrill. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 
1st Mass. Heavy Artillery, at Cambridge, July 24th, 1862. 
Promoted 2nd Lieut. 3d Mass. Heavy Artillery, Feb. 23d, 1864 ; 1st 
Lieut., April 9th, 1865. Served at Arlington Heights, Harper's Ferry, 
Norfolk and Gen. Butler's campaign ; also Aide-de-Camp under Gen. 
Thomas from Dec. 1864 to fall of Richmond Mustered out at Wash- 
ington, D. C, June 13th, 1865. 

* Christopher Pennell. Left College 18-62. Appointed Sergeant 
in 34th Mass. Vols., July 31st, 1863. Promoted Lieut., and served 
on Gen. Thomas' staflf. Killed July 30th, 1864. "At Petersburg 
mine, his first and only engagement, when our troops began to waver, 
he seized the Brigade colors and advanced calling upon his men to 
follow him. He fell far in fi'ont of the column, and of those who 
rushed to his rescue, all but one shared his fate." 

Ransom Dickinson Pratt. Left College 1861. EnUsted in 27th 
Mass. Vols., at Amherst, Mass., Sept. 1 8th, 1861. Soon after pro- 
moted Sergeant. Served at Roanoke, Newbern, Goldsboro', 
Charleston, Burnside's expedition in N. C, and Foster's expedition 
in S. C. Sick with typhoid and intermittent fevers. Mustered out 
at Newbern, N. C, Sept. 19th, 1864. 

Albert Roberts, Left College 1860. Enlisted in 52d Mass. 
Vols., at Amherst, Mass., Aug., 1862. Served in his Regt. until bat- 
tle of Port Hudson ; then sick with typhoid fever. Mustered out 
at Northampton, Mass., in autumn of 1863. 

Franklin Charles Severance. Left College 1862. Enhsted in 
52nd Mass. Vols., at Greenfield, Mass., in July, 1862. Promoted 
Sergeant ; 2nd Lieut., Sept., 1862. Served in Gen. Banks' expedi- 
tion to New Orleans, Western La. campaign and capture of Port 
Hudson, under Gen. Grover. Mustered out at Greenfield, Mass., 
Aug., 1863. Appointed Hospital Steward, U. S. A., at N. Y. City, 
March, 1865. Served in U. S. General Hospital at Knoxville, 
Tenn. ; in Medical Director's o£&ce at Knoxville.. Memphis, Nash- 
ville and Dept. of the Cumberland. Mustered out in April, 1867. 

*Frazar Augustus Stearns. Left College 1861. Commissioned 
1st Lieut. Co. I, 21st Mass. Vols., Aug. 21st, 1861, and served as 
Acting Adjt. of the Regt. Served at Washington, Annapolis, Roa- 



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noke Island and Newbern. Distinguished himself at Roanoke 
Island. Twice wounded at Roanoke Island ; mortally wounded 
in a charge at the battle of Newbern, and died March I4:th, 1862. 

Warrex Burzillar Stickney. Left College 1880. Enlisted in 
8th Vt. Vols., Nov. 19fch, 1861. Promoted Lieut. 99th U. S. C. T., 
Sept. lOfch, 1863 ; Acting Asst. Q. Master. Served at Ship Island, 
New Orleans, Opelousas R. R., Port Hudson, and Mobile ; also 
Supt of Colored schools and Freedmen's Bureau. Mustered out 
Dec. 11th, 1865. 

Joseph Augustus Titus. Left College 1862. Appointed 1st Sergt. 
in 42nd Mass. Vols., Aug. 18th, 1862. Served at New Orleans and 
Lakeport. Mustered out at ReadviUe, Mass., Aug. 20th, 1£63. 
Commissioned 2nd Lieut, in 60th Mass. Vols., at Worcester, Mass., 
July 20th, 1864. Promoted 1st. Lieut., Aug. 1st, 1861; Adjt. of 
62nd Mass. Vols., March 1st, 1865. Served in Dept. of the West. 
Mustered out at Readville, May 5th, 1865. 

* John Marshall Whitney. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 1 st 
Mass. Cavalry, Sept. 6th, 1802. Promoted Hospital Steward U. S. 
A.; acting Asst. Surgeon U. S. N, Served as Clerk in Surg. 
General's office, and Asst. Surgeon in U. S. N. Drowned while 
bathing in St. John's River, Aug. 16th, 1864. 

■*• Joseph Ells Wilher. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 31st 
Mass. Vols., in Nov.. 1861. Promoted Corporal and Sergt. ; Q. M. 
Sergt., April 30th, 1863. Served in campaigns of Gens. Butler and 
Banks. Killed at Sabine Cross Roads, La.. April 8th, 1864. 



1864. 



James Carlos Adams. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 13th U. S- 
Infantry, at Dubuque, la., Jan. i4th, 1862. Promoted Asst. Sur- 
geon, March 4th, 1864 ; Hospital Steward U. S. A., June, 1864. 
Served at Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Malvern Hill, Missioil 
Ridge and siege of Vicksburg, under Gen. Sherman. Mustered oiii 
»t Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 28th, 1865, 



42 Amherst College 

* Albert Dean Amsden. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 2iid 
Mass. Cavalry, (Eifle Rangers); under Gen. Butler. Sick with 
fever, and died at New Orleans, May 13th, 1862. 

Nelson Freeman Bond. Left College 1861. Enlisted in 31st 
Mass. Vols., at Amherst, Mass., Oct. 5th, 1861. Promoted 1st 
Sergt. Nov. 10th, 1861; 2nd Lieut., July 1st, 1862; 1st Lieut., Nov. 
20th, 1862 ; Capt., Aug. 1st, 1861 ; Brev. Maj., March 13th, 1865. 
Served at Fort Bisland, Alexandria, La., siege of Port Hudson, 
Banks' Red River expedition, Sabine Cross Roads, Cave River, 
Bynam's Mills, Moore's Plantation, Yellow Bayou, Pensacola, Span- 
ish Fort, and siege of Mobile. Under Gens. Butler, Banks and 
Steele. Wounded at Port Hudson. Mustered out at Mobile, Ala., 
Sept. nth, 1865. 

William Jackson Clark. Enlisted in 5th 111. Vol. Cavalry, at 
Camp Butler, Springfield, 111., Sept. 1st, 1861. Promoted Commis- 
sary Sergt., Oct. 1st, 1861. Served under Gen. Curtis. Mustered 
out in Sept., 1862. 

*Francis Amsden Clary. Left College ' 1861. Enhsted in 31st 
Mass. Vols., at Amherst, Mass., Oct. 6th, 1861. Soon promoted 
Sergeunt and in Dec, Regt. Color Bearer. Served at New Orleans, 
Fort Jackson, Teche campaign, and Port Hudson. Under Gens. 
Butler and Banks. Killed at Port Hudson, June 14th, 1863. 

John Brown Dunbar. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 52nd 
Mass. Vols., at Hadley, Mass., Oct. 11th, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 
14th, 1863. Re-enhsted in 16th Mass. Light Artillery, March 11th, 
1864. Served in defense of Washington and at Fairfax Court House. 
Mustered out June 22nd, 1865. 

Charles Warren Gray. Left College 1861. Served as Medical 
Cadot, Feb. Ttli, 1863— May 6th, 1863. 

Willl\m Barrows Grover. Left College 1861. Enhsted in 9th 
Me. Vols., Sept. 10th, 1862. Appointed Medical Cadet Nov. 13th 
1863. Served in Q. M. Dept. Mustered out at Boston, Mass., Nov, 
23d, 18 o4. 



Army akd Navy Koll. 43 

*WiLLiAM Lewis Howe. Left College 18G2. Enlisted in 30tli 
Mass. Vols., at Worcester, Mass., Aug. 4th, 1862. Promoted 2nd 
Lieut., June 29th, 1833. Served under Gen. Burnside. Died at 
Milldale, Miss., July 7th, 1863. 

Luther Clark Howell. Left College 1861. Commissioned 2nd 
Lieut. Co. D, 31st Mass. Vols., at Ware, Mass., Oct. 9th, 1881. 
Promoted 1st Lieut, Nov. 20th, 1862 ; Capt., Dec. 4th, 1863. 
Served at New Orleans, Baton Eouge, Port Hudson, Teche cam- 
paign. Red River expedition, Sabine Cross Roads, Mansfield, Cave 
River Crossing, and Mobile. Under Gens. Butler, Augur, Banks, 
and Dudley. Mustered out at Mobile, Ala., Sept. 9th, 1865. 

David Allison Irwin. Left College 1862. Commissioned Major 
13th Pa. Cavalry. Promoted Lieut. U. S. A., at close of war. 

James Hattrick Lee. Commissioned 2nd Lieut, in 1st Mass 
Heavy Artillery, at Boston, Aug. 1864. Served in defenses of Wash- 
ington, under Gen. De Russy. Mustered out in June, 1865. 

*Anson Brainard Norton. Left College 1861. Enhsted in 52nd 
Mass. Vols., Aug. 29th, 1862. Promoted Corporal, Oct. 30th, 1862. 
Served at Port Hudson, and in Teche campaign, under Gen. Banks. 
Died at Bayou Bluff, April 19th, 1863. 

Ebenezer Burgess Park. Left College 1862. Enlisted in Co. B, 
42nd Mass. Vols., in Autumn of 1862. Served in Gen. Bank's ex- 
pedition to New Orleans, at battle of Bayou La Fourche, and Bra- 
shear City. Mustered out at Readville, Mass., in autumn of 1863. 

Martin Luther Williston. Enlisted iu 52nd Mass. Vols, at 
Northampton, Mass., Aug. 28th, 1862. Promoted Sergeant. Served 
in Dept. of the Gulf, Teche and Red River campaigns, siege of Port 
Hudson and battles of Irish Bend and Vermilion River. Under 
Gens. Banks and Grover. Mustered out at Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 
l4th, 1863. 

1865. 

Charles Alphonso Ames. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 13th 
N. H. Vols., in autumn of 1862. Promoted Q. M. Sergeant in 1862. 
Served until close of war. 



44 Amherst Colleoe 

HoBACE Franklin Barnes. Enlisted in 47th Mass. Vols., at 
Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 2d, 1862. Served at Camp Bisland, Ver- 
milion Bayou, Franklin, Opelousas, Port Hudson Plains, and Port 
Hudson. Mustered out at Boston, Mass., Aug. 19th, 1863. 

Henry Clay Bucknam. Left College, 1868. Entered the Army 
of the Potomac in the autumn of 1863, and served at the front 
until close of the war. Sick in hospital at Washington, D. C. 

* Thomas Burnham. Left CoUege 1862. Enlisted in 104th 111. 
Vols., Aug. 14th, 1862. Promoted Corporal, Sept. 15th, 1862. 
Served at Chatanooga, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission 
Ridge and Atlanta campaign. Under Gens. Rosecrans and Sher- 
man. Mortally wounded at Atlanta, and died July 20th, 1864. 

*Alfred Dwight Clapp. Left College in 1862. EnHsted in 52nd 
Mass. Vols., at Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 1st, 1862. Served in Gen. 
Banks' expedition to Louisana. Sick with malarial fever and died 
Nov. 22nd, 1863. 

Ebenezer Draper. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 40th Mass. 
Vols., Aug. 15th, 1862. Promoted Sergeant soon after ; Sergeant 
Maj., May 21st, 1864 ; Adjutant, April 1st, 1865. Served at Wash- 
ington, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Morris Island, Fort Sumpter, St. Mary's 
Creek, Olustee, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, Drury's Bluff, Cold Har- 
bor, Seven Pines, and Fair Oaks. Mustered out June 30th, 1865. 

RoDOLPHUs Dickinson Fish. Left College 1862. Enlisted 
in 52nd Mass. Vols., at Rowe, Sept. 1st, 1862. Served in Gen. 
Banks' expedition, Port Hudson, Brashear City, and Opelousas. 
Captured at Port Hudson, and paroled July Sth, 1863. Mustered 
out at Greenfield, Aug. 12th, 1863. 

Sereno Dwight Gammell. Enlisted in 45th Mass. Vols., at 
Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 4th, 1862. Promoted 1st Lieut., Aug. 
23d, 1864. Served under Gen. Banks at New Orleans and at de- 
fense of Washington. Mustered out at Washington, D. C, June 
2i)th, 1865. 

♦Edward Dickinson Gaylord. Left College 1862. EnHsted in 
4th Del. Vols., in summer of 1862. Promoted Orderly Sergeant. 
Served in Grant's campaign. Mortally wounded at Petersburg. 
Died at Lincohi Hospital, Washington, D. C, Aug. 23d, 1864. 



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Edward Payson Gray, Left College 1862. Enlisted in Ist Mass. 
Cavalry, at Springfield, Mass., Aug. 18th, 1862, and transferred 
to Invalid Corps. Promoted Sergeant, Feb. 5th, 1864. Served at 
Potomac Creek Station and Aquia Creek Station ; also Clerk in 
Adj. General's office. Severely injured at Aquia Creek, and sick 
eight months. Discharged Nov. 18th, 1864. 

George Monn Tracy Johnson. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 
Ist N. Y. Cavaky, at Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 27th, 1864. Served 
in Kanawha Valley, Va., under Gens. Cook and Sheridan. Mus- 
tered out at WheeUng, Va., June 8th, 1865. 

Edmund Adams Jones. Enhsted in 42nd Mass. Vols., Sept. 13th, 
1862. Promoted Sergt., March 28th, 1863 and Commissary Sergt. 
in May, of same year. Served in transport Shetucket, in Gen. Banks 
expedition and at Brashear City,New Orleans and Bayou La Fourche. 
Severely wounded at Bayou La Fourche, June 21st, and mustered 
out at EeadviUe, Mass. Aug. 20th, 1863. 

Edward Payson Lee. Left College 1862. Enhsted in 11th Vt. 
Vols., at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Aug. 8th, 1862. Promoted Sergt., Aug. 
12th, 1862; 1st Lieut., Sept. 2nd, 1862; Capt., Nov. 2nd, 1863. 
Served at Spottsylvania, Hanovertown, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, 
Fort Stevens, Charlestown, Va., Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar 
Creek. Under Gens. Sherman and Grant. Wounded at Cedar 
Creek, Oct. I9th, 1864 ; mustered out at Washington, D. C, June 
24th, 1865. 

Samuel Valentine McDuffie. Left College 1862. Enhsted in 3d 
N. H. Vols., in Autumn of 1863. Transferred to Signal Corps in 
1864. Served at Port Royal, Forts Wagner and Gregg, and Jack- 
sonville, Fla. Mustered out at Jacksonville, in Aug. 1865. 

John Ames Mead. Left College 1862. Enhsted in 39th Mass. 
_JVols., July 29th, 1862. Served at Washington, Hatcher's Run, 
Fort Steadman, Five Forks, Farmville, Petersburg and Appomattox. 
Under Gens. Heintzleman, Meade, Sherman and Hancock. Taken 
prisoner Oct. 11th, 1883, and paroled March 29th, 1864. Mustered 
out at Alexandria, Va., June 2nd, 1865. 

*Harlan Page Moore. Left College 1862. Appointed Orderly 
Sergt. in 36th Mass. Vols, at Worcester, July 28th, 1862. Detailed 



46 Amherst College 

Clerk ill Q. Master's Dept, Served in Burnside's Corps at Fred- 
ericksburg, Falmouth &c. Sick mth brain fever at Camp Nelson, 
Ky., and died Feb. 29tli, 1864. 

Samuel E. Nichols. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 37tli Mass. 
Vols., at Northampton, July 15th, 1862. Promoted 2nd Lieut., 
Sept. 19th, 1864 ; 1st Lieut, and Adj., May 10th, 1865. Served at 
Fredericksburg, Mary's Heights, Gettysburg, Coal Harbor, Spott- 
sylvania. Wilderness, Petersburg, Winchester, &c. Under Gens. 
McCleUan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Sheridan. Mustered 
out at Hall's Hill, Va., June 2 1st, 1865. 

Zabdiel Sidney Sampson. Enlisted in 3d Mass. Vols., at Lake- 
ville, Sept. 23d, 1862. Served on garrison duty in N. CaroHna, 
under Gen. Foster. Mustered out at Lakeville, Mass., June 26th, 
1863. 

* Nathanael Bemis Smith. Left College 1862. Appointed Orderly 
Sergeant in 58th Mass. Vols., Dec. 12th, 1863. Served in battles 
of Wildernes, Spottsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Harbor. Died 
on the battle-field at Cold Harbor, June 23d, 1864. 

Sylvester Lamson Stockbridge. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 
37th Mass. Vols., at Hadley, in July 1862. Soon promoted Cor- 
poral. Served under Gens. Burnside and McCleUan. Mustered 
out on account of disabihty, at Camp Falmouth, Va., in Feb., 1863. 

Joseph Knight Taylor. Left College 1862. Enlisted in 37th 
Mass. Vols., in Aug 1S62. Served at Fredericksburg, Mary's Hill, 
Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, &c. 
Mortally wounded at Charlestown, and died Aug. 31st, 1864. 

1866. 

Charles Henry Chandler. Enhstedin 31stMass. Vols., Oct. 11th, 
1861. Served in New Orleans campaign. Discharged on account 
of sickness, Sept. 22nd, 1882. 

Noah Saxton Cooley. Enlisted in 46th Mass. Vols., at Long- 
meadow, Mass., Aug. 20th, 1862. Promoted 2ud Lieut. Sept. 18th, 
1864. Detailed on Signal Corps. Served at Newbern, Folly and 
Morris Islands, and siege of Forts Wagner and Sumpter. Under 
Gens. Foster and Hunter. Mustered out Oct. 10th, J 863. 



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Henky Thompson Peirce. Enlisted in 44th Mass. Vols., at Boston, 
in July, 1862. Served at Eawles'Mills, Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- 
boro, Ptymouth, &c. Under Gens. Foster and Stevenson. Mustered 
out at Boston in July, 1863. 

Stephen Bailey Rand. Enlisted in 46th Mass. Vols., at 
Holyoke, Sept. 30th, 1862. Served at Newbern, Kinston, White- 
hall and Western Maryland campaign. Sick at Newbern. Mustered 
out at Springfield,' July 29th,- 1863. 

Asa Adams Spear. Enlisted in 52nd Mass. Vols., at Amherst, 
Aug. 24th, 1862. r, Promoted 2nd Lieut. Oct. 28th, 1862. Served 
at Port Hudson, Irish Bend, and Teche campaign. Mustered out 
at Greenfield, Aug. 14th, 1863. 

George Frederic Ziegler. Enlisted in 126th Penn. Vols., 
Aug. 5th, 1862. Promoted Sergt. Maj., Aug. 15th, 1862. Served 
at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Mary's Heights, and Chattanooga. 
Mustered out at Harrisburg, Pa., May 20th, 1863. 

1867. 

John Warren Beam an. Left College 1864. Enlisted in 2nd 
Mass. Battery, at Hadley, Jan. 4th, 1864. Served in Red River 
campaign, battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, &c. Sick at Alex- 
andria. Mustered out in Summer of 1865. 

Daniel Swan Ells. Left College 1864. Enlisted at Abington, 
Mass., July 18th, 1864. Served at^Indianapolis, lud. Mustered 
out at ReadviUe, Nov. 30th, 1864. 

Edward Bartlett Earle. Enlisted in 18th N. H. Vols. 

James Harvey Earle. Enlisted in 3rd R. I. Heavy ArtiUery. 

— ^JoHN Barnard Fairbank. Enlisted in 36th Mass. Vols., at Oak- 
ham, Aug. 1st, 1862. Promoted Sergt., Sept. lOf.h, 1862; 2nd 
Lieut., May 2nd, 1863 ; 1st Lieut., Aug. 23d, 1863 ; Capt., May 
13th, 1864 ; Brev. Major of Vols., by Pres. Lincoln, for gallantry 
at Petersburg, and Brev. Col. for meritorious service. Served at 
Fredericksburg, Vicksbm-g, Jackson, Knoxville, Wilderness, Peters- 
burg, Antietam, &c. ; wounded at Kjioxville, Wilderness, and Peters- 
burg. Served under Gens. Burnside, McClellan, Meade, Grant 
and Schofield. Mustered out at Alexandria, Va., June 8th, 1865. 



48 Amherst College Abmy and Navy Roll. 

Charles Lysander Storrs. Enlisted in 27th Mass. Vols., at 
Amherst, Sept. 20th, 1861. Promoted 2nd Sergt. in Nov., 1861 ; 
let Sergt., July, 1862; Capt., March 1st, 1864. Served at Roa- 
noke Island, Newbern, Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', siege of 
Wabhington, &c. Under Gens. Burnside, Butler, Gilmore, and 
Foster. Mustered out in October, 1865. 

* Melvin Blanchard Tasker. Left College 1865. Appoint- 
ed Sergt. in 18th N. H. Vols., at Concord, N. H., March 29th, 
1865. Sick with lung and brain fever, April 14th, 1865, and 
died from its effects, Oct. 31st, 1865. 

1868. 

Albert Howard Livermore. Enlisted in 60th Mass. Vols., 
at Worcester, July 16th, 1864. Served in guarding rebel prison- 
ers, and at Camp Concord, Indianapolis, Ind. Mustered out at 
Boston; In Dec, 1854. 

John Worthington Marsh. Enlisted in 3d Vt. Battery, 
Nov. 14th, 1863. Promoted Sergt., Jan. 1st, 1864 ; 1st Sergt., 
May 1st, 1865; 2nd Lieut., June 12th, 1865. Served in Army 
of the Potomac, at Petersburg, Richmond, &c. Wounded, Aug. 
16th, 1864. Mustered out at Burlington, Vt., June 15th, 1865. 

HiLAND Hill Wheeler. Left College 1863. Enlisted in 8th 
N. Y. Artillery, at So. Butler, N. Y., Jan. 4th, 1864. Pro- 
moted 2nd Lieut., Feb. 16th, 1865; 1st Lieut., in 2nd N. Y. 
Artillery. Served at Washington, Petersburg, Shenandoah, &c. 
Wounded in battle, and sick onco -with typhus fever. Mustered 
out at N. Y. City, Oct. 10th, 1865. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Number of Graduates, 169 

Number of Undergraduates, 78 

Total, 247. 
Killed or died of wounds, 12 

Died of disease, 22 

Total, 34. 



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